Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>
> Thomas> Let's not drive the rhetoric to a feverish pitch, accusing people of
> Thomas> being unreasonable or unthinking. Consider the reasons for that
> Thomas> clause of the GPL, and consider the ways that our enemies would like
> Thomas> to try and abuse the GPL. It's those people that we worry about.
>
> When you come accusing me of violating the GPL, I think I
> can't raise the rhetoric to a higher fever pitch.
Um, I think RMS made the "accusation", not me.
And, he wasn't "accusing", he was saying Debian had made a mistake.
An understandable mistake, a forgivable mistake, just a mistake. If
he's right, then it's a mistake, and it should be corrected. If he's
right, it doesn't mean he made an accusation or anything nasty like
that.
He noticed something that is possibly contrary to the GPL (you do
understand how he could possibly think that, right?) and brought it to
Wichert's attention. Wichert agreed with him and posted a proposed
policy change, and we're discussing it. Nobody in that process made
an accusation of anything, just a potential mistake.
Thomas
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