On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:47:36 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 12/10/06, Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote: [...] > > When I say "pseudonym" I mean a virtual identity that (ideally) > > cannot be traced back to the real identity behind it. > > Something like a nym provided by a nym server, for instance. > > I'm not sure what level is required - do they need to be simply > contactable online, or in real life, or what? > > I think that this license does not allow anonymous or even > pseudonymous publication. This is was I suspect, too. [...] > > Is the LGPL a copyleft license, after all? > > Maybe the "weak" adjective actually refers to this limited > > possibility to add restrictions... > > Well, it is a 'weak' license, with a 'weak' copyleft. Perhaps FSF > should have made the LGPL simply GPL+an exception, it would take away > all the GPL special-casing in the LGPL. Actually this is exactly what the FSF is doing for LGPLv3: the first draft is phrased as a set of additional permissions on top of the GPLv3. -- But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend. -- from _Coming to America_ ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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