Quoting Ben Tilly ([email protected]): [Snipping the recap and same old, same old]
> There is actually good reason to pay attention to the FSF on this > issue. Ahem. Well, I have great respect for many of the people in FSF, but they have a long history of asserting what they would like to be the case as established fact, most notably in the GPL FAQ. [snip more of same] > Furthermore if the FSF is a copyright holder to code that you're using > (they do have copyrights on quite a bit of it), what they have > publicly said is a particularly good predictor of what will keep them > from getting annoyed at you. But exactly zero about legal reality, and it might arguably be a subtractive process. > Not challenging the FSF guidelines would be a safe way to do that. Doing exactly what someone else tells you to is _generally_ one way of reducing the odds of that person being vexed by you, yes. Thank you for that intelligence. > The threat of litigation is, of course, important to the enforcement > of copyrights. However it is rare for open source software to be > enforced through actual lawsuits. Ben, you're aware I'm not newly arrived from another planet, right? _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
