Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joerg, you have a certain opinion... and that is all it is! Other
people, some of them Debian maintainers have a different one. This is a
common situation, and it is allowed - in fact desirable in many situations.
If said opinions are believed to effect someones livelihood, then there
can be a court case where one set of opinions becomes the one that
everyone within the jurisdiction of that court must (at least in public)
agree to. That has *not* happened with respect your cdrtools license
change, hence (many) differing opinions about it.
You missunderstand things - sorry.
Some issues are _so_ obvious that all lawyers have the same opinion without the
need for a court case.
The GPL may not be written in a way that allows it to be understood from the
first attempt you read it, but if you carefully read it 20+x, you will finally
see where things are obvious and whatintention is behind the GPL. (snippage)
Sorry Joerg, but again - just your opinion! If it was so obvious there
would not *be* numerous discussions keeping you busy about this! Note
that I may actually agree with your opinion about the intent of the GPL,
but that would be just *my* opinion!
I believe that once you understand this, you will be able to disagree
less antagonistically, and cease alienating folk (which I would like to
see, as you have much of value to contribute - but currently your
presentation of ideas does not help anyone to listen!).
regards
Mark
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