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Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden
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JEDIDIAH |
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Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:13:50 -0600 |
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On 2009-12-18, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
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>
>
> Hadron wrote:
>>
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
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>> > In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Didn't Alan boldly claim that the GPL was "easy to understand"?
>> >
>> > Yes. The GPL is very easy to understand. It's USA copyright law which
>> > is hard.
>> >
>> > The only people who find the GPL hard are those who seek a legal means of
>> > violating it.
>>
>> And just about everyone that ever uses it, reads it or discusses it. I
>> find it amazing that you keep insisting it is so easy and yet we see you
>> embroiled in nitpicking over meaning time and time again. You're either
>> very thick skinned or in denial.
>
> Note that even Pee Jay has admitted that
>
> "a lot of people don't understand the GPL, including some lawyers"
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851
So? Some lawyers aren't terribly good at contract law in general
despite this is one of those things they even cover in law school.
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the social value of copyright to begin with.
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, (continued)
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, RJack, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, RJack, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Hadron, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, David Kastrup, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Hadron, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Hadron, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden,
JEDIDIAH <=
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Peter Köhlmann, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Hadron, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, JEDIDIAH, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, chrisv, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, Peter Köhlmann, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, chrisv, 2009/12/18
- Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, JEDIDIAH, 2009/12/18
Re: Pee Jay says silence is golden, RJack, 2009/12/18