On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:59:17AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:36:47PM +0100, Andrew Saunders wrote: > > What brought about this change of heart? [...] > Historical context can be persuasive, but it is not dispositive.
Oh yeah, and lest you think you've "caught me out in a contradiction", and recasting my position retrospectively to avoid embarrassment, let me assure you that you haven't. :) Permit me to quote myself on -private, from a few months ago, well before your clever discovery of my "change of heart": From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GNU Free Documentation License revisited Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 02:13:15 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] I cite Bruce because, based upon my review of the archives of debian-private, his interpretation of the SC exemplifies that of the Debian developers who approved the document. As the primary author of the document, his perspective doesn't have to be dispositive to be useful. Please note the final sentence. I'm afraid can't find you in the current Debian Developers' keyring provided in the debian-keyring package, so perhaps you are not one. Hopefully you can find one to independently verify the accuracy of my assertion, as -private is not publicly archived. In the future, you might want to make fewer presumptions. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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