From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 8 21:36:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D43737B41C for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0021.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.21] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16unMP-0001SZ-00; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:36:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB26F97.A45B9ADF@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:35:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Finch Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize References: <20020406171612.A17530@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CAF79CA.CB4D14B8@mindspring.com> <20020409032852.A30794@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch wrote: > > > This is generally true for copyright law. > > > > So now everyone who writes code is expected to be well read in > > copyright? > > No, but people who argue loudly and at great length about the GPL > are expected to have read the relevant parts. You implication is incorrect. I have read it, and I have read the GNU Manifesto, and I have read the relevent U.S.C. and international law. The quoted statement is out of context of the discussion, in which the poster was agreeing with a point I made, not refuting it. When the amount of law one is subject to exceeds your ability to carry it with a cart behind you, it is unresonable to expect your average layman -- the people being lobbied to apply the various open source licenses to their software -- to be well read on all of the information. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message