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Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:53:19 -0400 From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> To: bill-auger <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: (re-)evaluation of notabug.org [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > then the core question remains, what does "offers" actually > entail, WRT "-or-later"? - would that entail the implementation > of such an automated license checker or wizard? - or is it > sufficient to "give good instructions"? Would you like to suggest better wording. > savannah is ranked 'A' - im sure that savannah has no wizard of > that sort - i dont think that savannah itself, satisfies "gives > good instructions" either; though it does direct users to other > resources, which do have licensing instructions That's good enough. It doesn't matter whether the pages linked to are on the same site or another, as long as they give the crucial advice. > if is it sufficient to "give good instructions"; then "offers" > is not the essential concept - thats really suggesting: "explains > how to apply -or-later" It needs to tell users that they have these two options, and what they imply, and how to do them. Helping users do them is desirable too. Diffs are welcome. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
