P.S. to: plungins and licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Joern Rennecke
To give it a bit more legal bite with respect to ruling out accidental infringement, I suppose the passphrase could include a statement that assures that the sending program is licensed under the GPL. Another thing is that if it is considered possible that the passphrase an be distributed as a

Re: P.S. to: plungins and licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:10:28PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote: To give it a bit more legal bite There are no lawyers on this list (that I'm aware of). If you want to discuss this, please contact the FSF or SC directly instead. It does no good here. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery

Re: P.S. to: plungins and licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
You would not want a lawyer designing a compiler, so why... Honestly, this is not helping. This is a technological forum and this is not a technological issue but a legal one. So, even if you knew a lawyer who wishes to help and work with the FSF to address the legal issue, this is not the right

Re: P.S. to: plungins and licensing

2008-09-29 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would not want a lawyer designing a compiler, so why... Oh. I guess i'll just hang up my hat then ...