"scripts" requirement

[Mark S. Mathews]

Interesting.  My mistake.

Thanks for clarifying,
-Mark

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Harald Welte wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:38:07AM -0400, Mark S. Mathews wrote:
>>> Have you tried asking the FSF what their opinion is?
>>
>> No.  I'm more interested in the opinions of active enforcers than
>> philosophers, theorists, and gurus.  ;-)
>
>> The FSF has done a wonderful job of defining their vision of the free
>> software world, but they appear to me a little weak on the dirty-work
>> side of things: enforcement and courtroom tests/interpretation.
>
> The FSF does more enforcement than gpl-violations does, even durign the
> last year (the last numbers I've got was something like 50 vs. 30
> cases).  They just have a different policy regarding the publication of
> the results.  This may to a large degree be because of 'cultural'
> differences on the publication of the results of legal
> disagreements between US and the EU.
>
> So please don't think the FSF isn't doing anything practical. (yes, it's
> the FSF's fault that you can actually make such an assumption, bacause
> they dont publicise the fact of their enforcement *sigh*).
>
>

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