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One of the most famous "legal hacks", Richard Stallman's copyleft, had to be rewritten by a lawyer. rms wrote GPLv1 by himself and you should never use it. GPLv
by jordigh 8y ago
One of the most famous "legal hacks", Richard Stallman's copyleft, had to be rewritten by a lawyer. rms wrote GPLv1 by himself and you should never use it. GPLv2 is the version that was actually vetted by a lawyer.
A similar thing happened with Perl's Artistic License. Its version 2 is basically also a lawyer-approved rewrite.
In other words, hackers, don't try this at home. There are professionals who can do this for you.
- nickpeterson 8y agoI find it somewhat sad that law is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
- Karrot_Kream 8y agoIt's not. It's the equivalent of saying "I can do this better" and producing unreliably, buggy code. Sure you can, but a more experienced professional can point out all the corner cases you missed.
- sbov 8y agoThen when it fails, you blame the programming language rather than your experience in programming.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoI mean, if you pay attention to the names of the kernel API functions, you'd probably end up with the same conclusion.
- jancsika 8y agoI find it somewhat sad that programming is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.