On 7/13/05, Pedro A.D.Rezende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you classify your knowledge that some of them smoke crack?
Hyperbolic (and obviously non-literal) ridicule, not of the persons involved but of the premise (wholly unfounded in law and legal history) that the GPL is a creature of anything other than contract law. But you are quite right that I shouldn't be using that phrase even as a reference to previous debian-legal posts (which is what I intended in that postscript), not because any reasonable person would mistake it for an accusation of drug use, but because a couple of people (Bernard Link and Raul Miller, IIRC; http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00208.html ) said it made them uncomfortable. I don't wish for my language (as opposed to what I have to say) to make people uncomfortable. Pity, though; the other Google results for "crack-smoking GPL" are hilarious. "crack-smoking Linus Torvalds" is even better. Cheers, - Michael
