From my interpretation, what he said was "I don't care to understand licenses enough so I don't want to be bothere with it." Now I think this is a rather small-minded approach to this issue, which I think is very bad. Perhaps, the response to Ovid about it instead of this message was not appropriate, or I may have misunderstood what Ovid said.
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What I did claim that people who refuse to understand the various common open source licences and when it is appropriate to use one of them, are acting small-mindedly (or "small-headedly") in this context.
For the record, I refuse to understand the various common open source licenses, and when it is appropriate to use one of them.
So instead, for the win32.perl.org logo and the Strawberry Perl license bundling issues, even though I don't see a problem, on the advice of Randal and Allison I've asked to pass on the details of both issues to the TPF Intellectual Property lawyers for revue, and I've been lucky enough that I've been allowed to burn a few hours of their time on this issue.
I may be ignorant, but I'm not naive, and I know it matters. But I shouldn't have to put in the effort to learn this stuff.
And most of the people here are the same. They remain ignorant, not because they don't care, but because they prefer to defer to others who DO understand more than we ever could.
This does not make them small-minded at all, just pragmatic. Adam K
