[License-discuss] FreeAndFair license

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Jun 14 18:58:10 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> So, I still don't understand what role "principle" plays in BSD and
> GPL dual licensing?

The principle in question should be a legal maxim but isn't.  "Damnunt quod
non intelligunt", people fear what they do not understand.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion
that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive
activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,
but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
taken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version
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