On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:21:17PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > >> You don't appear to be arguing against the idea that debian-legal is > >> extreme compared to the rest of the project. > > > > I'm arguing that what you perceive as extremism is simply the presence > > of knowledge -- sure, the debian-legal regulars have opinions about > > licenses. The X Strike Force probably has opinions about windowing > > systems and weird architectures. That doesn't make XSF or D-L > > extremists, though. To characterize anyone with knowledge and the > > reasoned opinions that spring from it as an extremist is unwise; to > > dismiss them because of this extremism is to restrict yourself to the > > opinions of the unwise. > > So you believe that if we taught all developers about intricate > licensing issues, the number who would be of the opinion that DFSG 4 is > a mistake and that the GPL is only free because of DFSG 10 would > increase significantly? I don't believe this are particularly common viewpoints within -legal, so... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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