On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:00:29PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > The intent is actually to protect downstream people from your mistakes. Please don't be a babysitter. :-/ > Consider: person A at corporation X changes something in program P, > then quits, and then person B prepares P for distribution, without > knowledge of when A made what changes. If the changes are noted when > they're made, this can't happen. It's not like the FSF or other GPL-user wouldn't have a cause for action in this case. Once the distribution happens, the restrictions attach. In any event, I am highly skeptical that this intent is realized in even a small minority of cases. People are in general pretty sloppy, especially with 2a). -- G. Branden Robinson | The best place to hide something is Debian GNU/Linux | in documentation. branden@debian.org | -- Ethan Benson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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