[copyleft-next] HBR cure 2013-02-18

Pamela Chestek pchestek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 14:26:01 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Richard Fontana
<fontana at sharpeleven.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:41:49PM -0500, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> > I like the idea of explaining it in an FAQ. While FAQs wouldn't be
> binding in
> > an express contract way, but they would show what the practice in the
> industry
> > is, which is probably good enough.
>
> With the GPL, for better or worse, the FSF's FAQ has been remarkably
> influential in affecting industry assumptions about GPL interpretation.
>

When I was on the proprietary side of the house I just assumed (without
agreeing) that the FAQs were the proper interpretation. It was like my
neighbor who thought the property line was in a different place than what
we thought; if I just observed his boundary line he wouldn't come out on
his porch when he was drunk and yell at me for crossing it, and I would
tolerate him coming around the fence and mowing the skinny little strip of
grass between the fence and our driveway.  And I suppose ultimately someday
he would adversely possess that little plot of land, which is the point of
the FAQs....

Pam
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