On Saturday 21 July 2007 19:47:19 jonathon wrote: > LinuxMail wrote: > >It does not require a lawyer to decipher the meaning it is > > plainly clear to anyone who reads it. > > Neither the GNU GPL 2.0,nor GNU LGPL 2.1 are legally > precise. With GNU GPL 3.0 and GNU LGPL 3.0, the meaning is > more legally precise. In both instances, the apparent > "plain meaning" is not necessarily what the legal meaning is. > > I'll grant that neither the GNU GPL nor LGPL obfuscate the > terms and conditions, the way certain other organizations do.
I am aware of the difference between plain/normal definitions and legal definitions. I have several English language dictionaries and I also have Black's Law dictionary. I have looked up the definition of words in both and they don't mean the same thing between the two books. To point out that you don't need a lawyer as I said before, look at the US constitution. For any one living in the US the US Constitution is the law of the land. It is also written in plain English and easy for any one to understand. The politicians are mostly lawyers and decided that they needed to create some sort of law to make it complicated so that the citizens would not be able to keep tract of what is going on so they created Corporate law which is know as title codes. Corporate law is so confusing for non-lawyers it has to be read several times very carefully and with the use of Black's law dictionary if there is any hope of understanding what is said. I apologies to all who don't care about this stuff. I will not go any farther with this subject nor will I reply to it or any more like it on this list. I have studied the law, the political process and the control and creation of the economic tools (money and how it flows) used in the US for more than 15 years. If some one wants to discuss this with me off list that is fine but I will be very selective about who I talk to and what I tell you. I will tell how to find the information for your self and let you come to your own conclusion about things. -- http://webpages.charter.net/jlgates Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
