----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome Grimbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E licence & registrar > > Joachim Van der Auwera makes some magical things to make me read > } > } > > I think there is a major problem with the current licence. > } > > What would happen if the registrar stops doing his or her work. > } > Then you ask TT to appoint a new one. > } > } Ok, what if TT can not be reached or found (or worse) ? Or he has no time or > } does not know anybody ft for the job... > } What if the amount of code added is such that he is a co-author, and not the > } main author? > } > } How can you expect people to write free code which may be impossible to > } dictribute if this happens? > > I'm personaly fed up with contract which try to cover everything which > has a non-null probablility. > > <Irony on> > - What if earth is hit by a meteor ? > - What if paper is declared carcinogen and forbidden everywhere ? > - What if the sun burst ? > - What if the Internet is shutdown to protect the Democraties ? > - What if nuclear apocalypse happens ? (Oops, India and Pakistan are already at work...) > - What if coding become an outlaw action ? > - What if I get sick on Monday and well by Saturday ? > - What if time-travel become possible ? > - What if french team wins the football cup (not this year, not a chance!) ? > - What if it's raining at my place but it's sunny for the registar ? > - What if life is discovered near a far remote star, does the licence > also apply to them too ? > - What if I go to mars ? or just to the moon ? > - What if I just die three days after a purchase ? Would I get my money back ? > - What if I die and then get reanimated ? > - What if all the new processors use base 5 instead of binary ? > - What if I eat a cookie without drinking milk ? > - What if I lace my shoes in the opposite sens ? > - What if I can walk also on my hands ? What if Jerome wrote adverts for Honda (;-) All the best - Bill
