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date: 2000/09/06 17:19
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title: Advogato post for 2000-09-06 17:19:31
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    <a href="http://advogato.org/person/mazeone/">mazeone</a>: If I give a copy of whatever to
    Joe, he is now in compliance, because accepting the copy is
    legal (he is not forced to assure MY compliance), and the
    copy contains only GPLd code. You could argue that I would
    be breaking the license one last time, but what's another
    stripe on the tiger? ;-)
    
    
    <p> <a href="http://advogato.org/person/brother/">brother</a>: It's not a matter of
    black
    helicopters, at all. It's a matter of having a package
    (kdelibs) that Debian already said has no licensing
    problems, and still it never gets into Debian, after many
    many months. Why should I believe KDE will change their
    minds? After all, again, it was not licensing that kept
    kdelibs out! In fact, I still have not seen any rational
    explanation on why kdelibs was removed in the first place,
    except that they were wrong about the license of something
    in it (gettext). They were wrong. They knew it. Did they put
    it back? Of course not.
    
    <p> <p> Besides, didn't knew that posting something in my diary
    was
    yelling ;-)
    
    <p> <p> <a href="http://advogato.org/person/nymia/">nymia</a>: Odds of what? Odds
    of having fun
    coding? Probably. Odds of finding people to use the code? I
    doubt it. Odds of being sued? There are none whatsoever. The
    solution is so trivial (and described below) that it makes
    no sense to even whine.
    
    <p> <p> Believe it or not, I am now totally relaxed. Since I
    don't
    give a damn about the whole bunch anymore, they can do
    whatever they want, including sueing me, if they really want
    to. They are dead to me.