On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:15:40 -0500 Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Attempts to legislate pi are always questionable, and when you ask a
> > majority of uninformed voters[3] to choose between items, it's
> > natural for the compromise to win, and not unheard of for it to end
> > up "3".
>
> I agree wholeheartedly,
So do I...
> but I'm not exactly sure how else to proceed.
> I don't think /anyone/ who is part of the consensus here is too happy
> with the outcome of this GR.
I'm definitely not happy: on the contrary, I'm really depressed...
:-(((
>
> Alas, now that pi != 4*atan(1), how shall we proceed?
I really do not know...
> Interpreting
> licenses and the DFSG is nowhere near as clear as mathematics and,
> unfortunately, just ignoring the GR would, I think, make us look like
> sore losers.
It'a pain anyway: even if the DFSG are not as clear as maths, I cannot
figure out a way to consistently interpret them, with the constraints
that:
* GFDL'd works (with no unmodifiable & unremovable parts) must be
considered free, as required by GR-2006-001
* at the same time, we do not open the floodgates and accept almost
every kind of restriction in main
At this point, I really do not know how to act... :-|
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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