Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The review process at Apple is notoriously capricious. Given how widely
varying reviews are with regard to Apple's own policies, it wouldn't be
surprising if some, perhaps many, of Apple's employees were unfamiliar with
the Free Software Foundation's findings of incompatibility between the GPL
and Apple's App Store policies:
Commenting as a lawyer, though: there are something like seven
billion opinions that get more weight than the FSF's on the issue.
At least on version 3, they had their chance for input before it was
written (I think version 2 predates the FSF). The general rule of
interpretation is that you construe a document against the drafter;
the FSF opinion gets little weight given their involvement/sort of
being the same folks that wrote it).
I'm no attorney, but as a layperson I would find it disturbing if the
explicit intentions of the creator of a license were not given weight in
how that license is interpreted.
--
Richard Gaskin
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