New subject: Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

21 Dec 2001


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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
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No, its not irrelevant because it will effect the advise the company
lawyers give their clients.
But know you are inconsistent with yourself. You've been 
claiming that it
is the very spirit of the LGPL that would scare companies 
away, and I can
see some merit to that idea.
No, I have been say that the _means_ to implement the spirit of
LGPL might scare away companies.
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You've also been claiming that 
the LGPL may
not be enforceable, thus in mathematical terms, 
   the expected value of the LGPL < the intended meaning of the LGPL
it follow directly, that the more you are right, the less negative the
advise of the lawyers.
Only if lawyers have certain mathematical properties, which they
certainly do not have. Actual most functions don't have such
properties either.
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So, if you 100% right, the LGPL would become BSD, and the 
lawyers would
give the same advise, as for the BSD. If you are 100% wrong, 
then we do
get the full protection of the LGPL, and we're happy. 
Anything in between
is a linear combination of the two. In any case, there really 
is no point
about bitching the doctrine of derived work. QED.
LGPL can only be BSD if the doctrine of derived work is very weak,
so it does have something to do with that.
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In fact, choosing the LGPL is a very nice way of hedging our 
bets agains
future changes in copyright law. And this is so because of 
the negative
feedback loop that the LGPL introduces agains the copyright 
law. Brilliant.
Now you are contradicting your self. You said earlier IIRC
something about that you shouldn't believe that the license Wine
chooses effect copyright law.

RE: Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches