On Friday 09 September 2005 17:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I doubt that "people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear > >> at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit" > >> can be meaningfully described as a "group of persons" that can be > >> discriminated against. If everybody belongs to the group, is it > >> meaningfull to discriminate against it? > > > > Try "people who do not have enough money to travel to $VENUE to defend > > themselves from a frivolous lawsuit -- one that they will lose by > > defaulting their court appearance". I think Debian agrees that "poor > > people" in general is a group that is protected by DFSG#5. > > Whereas the alternative may be that licensors are unable to afford the > enforcement of their license. Would you prefer to discriminate against > them?
Debian has always been full of software licensed that way ;-) Now you want (unintentially) to leave possible holes thru new 'a-la sco insane cases' to enter the scene... all over the world. > The legal system discriminates in favour of rich people. That's true > regardless of license conditions. I'll agree here ! Then why leave easy targets to lawsuit sharks ? -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
