GPL v3
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Jan 26 00:27:13 UTC 2006
Quoting Andy Tai (lichengtai at yahoo.com):
> What's amusing is that the Debian guidelines actually were designed
> explicitly with the GPL in mind, and now you are saying even the GPL
> v2 violates the Guidelines. Suppose that is true, and since the GPL
> came first, then it is the Guidelines that failed its purpose rather
> than the GPL fails to follow the Guidelines.
I believe that was the earlier poster's intended point.
The Tentacles of Evil Test, Dissident Test, and Desert Island Test are
heuristics employed by some debian-legal denizens primarily as, IMVAO,
a plausible-sounding way to dispense with any residual sense of
proportion and context. I've seen them used to bolster far-fetched
objections against, e.g., the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
2.0 licence. These things then get written up on "summary" Web pages,
with the implication that they somehow speak for Debian.
--
Cheers,
Rick Moen "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
rick at linuxmafia.com -- Elizabeth Tudor
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