Seth David Schoen wrote: > Much obliged for your interest. (I'm not on debian-legal; is it a public > list?)
Yes it is. (Note the mail you got had the address wrong; I'm bad about that.. I'll pass the rest of your reply on to the right address.) > My concerns about the export controls have been getting very little attention > in proportion to some other concerns about the APSL -- which may be > reasonable, given that my concerns have fewer practical consequences. > > I asked Bruce Perens about this, and he told me that he believed it was > another difficulty with the current APSL. Most Linux people I've spoken to > say that my point is well taken, while most Macintosh people seem to think > my concerns are irrelevant or trivial. > > I've actually been discussing this a little bit on Apple's publicsource list; > the most substantive thing I've seen in response was a long argument from a > self-described "Apple patriot" who insisted that I couldn't understand the > nature and complexity of the problems facing a major multinational > corporation, and that we needed to allow Apple to make its own decisions > in consultation with its lawyers, who surely knew better than we did about > the practical legal issues involved. I wrote a very long reply (privately), > but I have not received permission to quote this correspondent, so I have > not posted that reply anywhere. It deals at length with the issue of > idealism versus pragmatism in licensing, and insists that free software > supporters should try to defend their principles so that the idea of free > software is not diluted past recognition. > > OK, I've put up a version of that message with the other person's comments > paraphrased at > > http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/apsl-comments.txt > > -- > Seth David Schoen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do." And they > said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the > nations." (1 Sam 8) http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/ > http://www.loyalty.org/ -- see shy jo
