[OSM-dev] GPL stupidity

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    the world is full of people who make us sign contracts where you 
"confirm that you have read and understood" stuff that you never 
actually read or understood, and we're not even bothered by that, it's 
just normal everyday fear-of-being-sued or whatever. I think it is 
stupid but I'm getting used to it.

To those of you who regularly prepend their software contributions to 
OSM with the sentence:

"You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 
02110-1301, USA."

- have you thought of what you're writing there? If someone downloads 
source code from our SVN, in what way "should" they "have received" a 
copy of the GPL, and would anyone of you, when asked for the text of the 
GPL, actually respond with "write to the FSF"?

No?

Then why you do you put that note in your software?

Bye
Frederik