At 06:49 3/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>At 02:20 PM 11/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>You understand that part of my motivation is to get this thing out the door
>>ASAP.
>>
>>IF YOU ARE ****AGAINST**** an LGPL change, SPEAK UP!!!!! SEND THE MAIL TO
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>your silence will not count!!!!!
>>
>>Given the noise we are making I am pretty sure we will reach everyone,
>>in 2 weeks it will be too late ....
>
>Ya gotta be careful about this. Silence does NOT mean assent. You should
>probably require a positive statement from every author before you change
>to LGPL -- just to cover your legal butt. Yes, this is a pain, but it would
>be even more of a pain to have to go to court some day unable to prove that
>ALL of the software is legal.
Changing to LGPL does not make it any more legal to do what they are doing
so the point is kinda moot - the software will be illegal either way.
Cheers,
Pete
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