Hi Liam! On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:45:25 -0400 Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 17:16 -0400, Rick Kline wrote: > > Well, selling . html was written by a lawyer, wasn’t it? ;-) > > The primary author of SGML, the language on which HTML was based, was > written by a lawyer (Dr. Charles Goldfarb). > I think Rick was referring to "selling.html" i.e: the document at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html - it is just that the period was surrounded by spaces. Note that there is also https://www.gimp.org/about/selling.html . > HTML itself came from the SGML Starter Set via Anders Berglund to (now > Sir) Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Neither Tim nor Robert Cailliau working > on the Web anf HTML at the start were (or are) lawyers. > > Shlomi Fish has already responded to you on the GPL, although the FSF > spent a lot of time in consultations in developing GPL v3, and that > included significant input from laywers. > > Liam (slave ankh) > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy One of Rincewind’s tutors had said of him that “to call his understanding of magical theory abysmal is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice”. — Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
