Code written by the wrong people

[David Ingamells]

I fail to see the connection between copyright policies and stupid 
changes. IMHO there exists a huge amount of copyrighted code in the 
internet that is quite stupid. Legal "caveat emptor" protections are 
different but he was talking about copyright.

On 02/04/12 06:21, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ben Finney<ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>  wrote:
>
>> Please, Bazaar developers, convince Canonical that your project is being
>> hurt by this silliness, and move to the “inbound == outbound” copyright
>> policy of the vast majority of successful free-software projects
>> <URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/414051/>.
> That's a *terrible* reason for do anything.  "If  two million penguins
> do a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing."  Most free software
> projects, successful or not, (a) simply are not mission-critical to
> anybody, and (b) simply do not want to deal with legal issues and
> generally try to pretend that they'll go away if ignored (even in the
> case of XEmacs, which is downstream of the most rigidly policed legal
> policies in free software).
>
> Whether this particular change is stupid, of course, is going to be up
> to the judgment of the Canonical legal staff.
>
> The right reason for making this change is that optional plugins are,
> well, optional plugins, the core runs perfectly well without them, and
> the direction of derivation and therefore the legal issues are thus
> separable from the core.  That argument might even carry some weight
> with Mark and the Canonical leagle beagles.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>


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