On 2009-04-06, Rjack <u...@example.net> wrote: > JEDIDIAH wrote: >> On 2009-04-06, amicus_curious <a...@sti.net> wrote: >>> "JEDIDIAH" <j...@nomad.mishnet> wrote in message >>> news:slrngtkmgi.vvv.j...@nomad.mishnet... >>> >>>>> GPL license offerers are much more akin to homeowners who are trying >>>>> to rip off their invited guests by tempting them to accept an illegal >>>>> contract. >>>> Nice self-nuke on your part there... >>>> >>>> You either have a legal contract or you are tresspassing. >>>> >>> I don't think that you understood the analogy. Let me put it in what might >>> be a more understandable form. Say you go to Chicago for the Open Source >>> Expo and you and your buddies, being new to the big city, are wandering up >>> State Street and get enticed into a titty bar. Then some sweet honeys cozy >>> up to you and ask you to buy them a drink. "Sure!", you say, flattered by >>> such attention. Then later you find that the tab for the girls' drinks are >>> not what you expected and are some $50 apiece. "Pay up or we will call the >>> cops!" is what you are told. >>> >>> Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using >>> the "free" GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC. >>> "Ignorance is no excuse!", they say, "What's yours is now ours, you have >>> been touched!" >> >> ...except the GPL is very plain and out in the open. >> >> The intent of RMS is very clear and rather blunt. >> >> The only way you can "misunderstand" anything is if it were >> your original intent to try and "take advantage" to begin with. >> >> The terms are by no stretch of the imagination hidden. >> >> Neither is the intent of the proprietor. >> > > Boldness and clarity of purpose does not make that purpose legal.
...then the whole situation reverts to "straight property law". You're attempt to have it both ways just wont fly. -- Microsoft: Because the world doesn't have enough peasants. ||| / | \ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss