On 6 March 2010 23:39, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are no "arguments", it's just a suboptimality in the legal system. > At least (as I've said before), when I read the Library of Congress > documents, I saw nothing saying that ranges were permitted. I've also > never seen ranges in printed books. Finally, it was the FSF's lawyers > who originally determined it (long ago) as the best/safest practice. > FWIW.
Maybe it would be worth adding a sentence about that reasoning (just the "the FSF's lawyers think this is the safest practice" bit)? It might help stop the quibbling. Jim think's it's ugly, I think it's ugly, but until it's no longer in the GNU Coding Standards we might as well stick to it to avoid this sort of waste of time. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
