On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:54:38PM -0500, selussos wrote: > > Sue, There is a principle in hermeneutics that says: there are no > > useless words. This means, basically: if you want to say the same > > thing, use the same words. If you don't use the same words, you don't > > want to say the same thing. Basically, if X-Oz wants the same > > disposition as Apache Foundation (license v.1.1) /or/ XFree (license > > v.1.0), it should use the same license; or else, the only real -- and > > /legal/ -- conclusion is that the disposition is not the same. > > > > Herr Heidegger's principle of hermeneutics is not widely accepted > except outside of modern existentialism and as brilliantly postulated > by the late Monsieur Satre. But, if I am to follow that very > principle that you espouse, I would then also ask you to read the > license in the spirit of the American philosopher-academian, Prof. > Fish, in which case I can only say that your understanding must be > different from mine and that all words are useless. Thus I can only > ask that we can only argue from the basis of 'common understanding' > and 'common application'. Anything else would be too relativistic to > gain much headway and I do not have that type of time (unfortunately > ;-( to partake in such a heady discussion. That's quite all right, we need not have a sophisticated understanding of philosophy to resolve the present understanding. * The Debian Project generally respects the copyright holder's interpretation of the copyright license the copyright holder places on a work; * It is reasonable to assume that X-Oz Technologies, Inc., would have used the Apache Software License 1.1 or the XFree86 1.0 license if either of those licenses were found to serve the desired purpose; * To our knowledge, X-Oz Technologies, Inc., is the author of the license it used in the XFree86 X server auto-configuration code committed to XFree86 CVS by David Dawes in October of last year; * It reasonable to assume that X-Oz Technologies, Inc., wrote this license with an understanding of what it meant. All we really ask is that you share some of the particulars of that understanding with us. A reply to the 8 questions I sent you in a previous mail[1] should rectify most or all of the ambiguity in the license that we are wrestling with. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200403/msg00032.html -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@debian.org | be a devotee of truth, then http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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