Flower opened

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Thu Jun 14 12:07:07 PDT 2007


Reply to bobef,

> Don Clugston Wrote:
> 
>> I admire your sentiment, but I think that using lawyers to enforce
>> ethical
>> behaviour is not the right approach...
>> Better to avoid the legal language, and say something like:
>> "the author requests that ..."
>> and put it under a standard license.
> I see no lawyers in the whole thing. Looking at my English dictionary
> I understand the word "license" as "the author requests that ...". I
> haven't mentioned lawyers, have I? If you think of how this legal
> nonsense (because the state it is today is real madness in my opinion)
> begun it was just that. People *agreed* to follow some common rules.
> Today nobody agrees anything. Everybody is just forced, assuming that
> he agreed to be forced... Anyway... If it sounds "legal" to you-
> fine.
> 
> "I (the author) am requesting that the source code I provide is not
> used in a way that will result harm to anyone or anything sentient"
> 

"I (the author) am requesting that the source code I provide is not used 
in a way that will result [in] (harm to anyone) or (anything sentient)"

What I can't use your front-end in a Turing class AI?





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