Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb John Hasler: > Andreas Röhler writes: > > First thing is human dignity... > > Please define human dignity. >
Maybe let's regard a picture to grasp it. Let's look at Nelson Mandela. It's visible. > > ...the right of free speech is derived from it. > > So you say. > Yes. > > As we are human beings, we should not risk being injailed for our > > publishings for example, as it's the case nowadays. > > Less so nowadays than through most of history, actually. > Point of interest. 10 years ago, we had in Germany 10.000 police actions persecutiong so called thought crimes, mostly against so called right-wingers. (A mostly false claim BTW) Meanwhile, with "child-pornography", we are at 60.000 persecutions per year. Apropos child-pornography: Living in saxonian town of Dresden, some times I visited famous picture gallery after school: All these masters from italic rennaissance are plain of child-pornography. Or look Raphael: Madonna and Child. c.1503. Oil on panel. Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA Must we close our galleries because of internet-police? > > From human dignity results: every law, every treaty must be > > understandable by the leverage intelligent, or to say by the majority. > > Talk to your politicians. As a slave spoke? Why should they listen? > > That affects GPL: We should neither need nor maintain special counselling > > firms to tell the contents of the GPL. If it is so, it's wrong, it > > violates human dignity the extent, counselling is needed. > > The GPL is neither law nor treaty. Don't we say licence agreement? Is an agreement not like a treaty? > It's degree of complexity is, however, > partially dictated by laws over which the FSF has no control. > > > If FSF violates human dignity by itself, it will not be taken serious > > claiming derived minor items as free Software. > > What does that mean? > -- > "Things should be as simple as possible, and no simpler" --A. Einstein. Einstein shouldn't have backed the bomb. I'm compassionate with him. Greetings Andreas Röhler > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI USA > _______________________________________________ > gnu-misc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
