Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a response like the one you just gave. It was very clear from his
> original post that he answered the OP's question with (I paraphrase
> here)
>
> "Joerg is a coding God. But the maintainer in gentoo for the
> cdrtools package thinks that there is a license problem, following
> Debian's lead, so virtual/cdrtools defaults to cdrkit."
>
> Alan was not stating a fact about cdrtools. He was stating a fact
> about what a gentoo developer thinks. It is great and all that legal
> science and mathematics are both based on logic, but Alan has
> absolutely no control about what logic the developer uses. Nor do
> you, for this matter. If you have beef with the way cdrtools is
> treated, take it up with the gentoo developer that actually makes the
> decision to default to cdrkit and try to convince *him* that there is
> a problem with his interpretation.
It may be a general problem with social relations in the english language....
If you quote a false claim and do not inform people that the quoted claim
is wrong, then you indirerctly support the false claim.
I recommend to simply not quote people that claim there is a problem as lawyers
verified that there is no problem.
Jörg
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