Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: >The "dissident test" does sound very silly the way it is described in >the FAQ. Perhaps the FAQ should give a realistic example as well as >the memorable but silly "dissident" example. A realistic example might >be a group of people doing something that someone else might consider >to be an infringement of their patent; to avoid problems they want to >avoid letting other people know what they are doing. Or they might >want to avoid revealing a perfectly legal business plan. In general, a >free software licence should allow privacy of a group.
I'm also unconvinced by these examples. The first sounds like "A free software license should allow for small groups to avoid lawsuits while breaking the law", and the GPL can damage a wide range of perfectly legal business plans. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
