On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:18:28PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Right, but the fixed limit proposal would extend beyond just the > GFDL. Perhaps a developer writes a horrid novella, and puts one short > bit in each of many packages, marked invariant. They have thus > subverted the point of the restriction by splitting their crap into > many packages. A proportional test at least requires them to write > proportionately that much real worthy stuff, I hope.
Ah, right. I was thinking of what a packager could do, not what the author could do. > It sounds like you agree with the spirit of Anthony Towns's proposal? Indeed. I hadn't realized that, until I re-read the mail where he explained it again. Yes, there would be only minor differences between his proposal and what I had in mind. -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
