[OSM-dev] GPL stupidity

Lambertus osm at na1400.info
Thu Nov 8 17:30:56 GMT 2007


\me checks calendar
[...]
ROFLOL I thought friday afternoon was tomorrow...

Thanks Frederik, you made my day!

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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