Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:35:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <3CB26F97.A45B9ADF@mindspring.com> References: <20020406171612.A17530@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CAF79CA.CB4D14B8@mindspring.com> <20020409032852.A30794@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Tony Finch wrote: > > > This is generally true for copyright law. > > > > So now everyone who writes code is expected to be well read in > > copyright? > > No, but people who argue loudly and at great length about the GPL > are expected to have read the relevant parts. You implication is incorrect. I have read it, and I have read the GNU Manifesto, and I have read the relevent U.S.C. and international law. The quoted statement is out of context of the discussion, in which the poster was agreeing with a point I made, not refuting it. When the amount of law one is subject to exceeds your ability to carry it with a cart behind you, it is unresonable to expect your average layman -- the people being lobbied to apply the various open source licenses to their software -- to be well read on all of the information. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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