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Yeah, well, hate to be a partybreaker and I personally love that "Goot, not Evil" clause, but in the world of lawyers jokes do not exist. It's cute, but for ser

by wulczer 16y ago

Yeah, well, hate to be a partybreaker and I personally love that "Goot, not Evil" clause, but in the world of lawyers jokes do not exist. It's cute, but for serious software keep the licensing simple.

GrandMasterBirt 16y ago
Does that mean I can sue microsoft because I feel they are evil and they implement JSON?
- rbanffy 16y ago
  They have a proprietary, pure-evil implementation. Since they don't use the original one, but their own, they are free to use it for their evil purposes, mwahaha included.
wulczer 16y ago
By the way, just to prove I'm not such a stiff, I rememberd and quickly found this: http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions It genuinely made me laugh :)
edw 16y ago
More importantly, RMS does not come across as a person with a sense of humor. (Has any Jacobin ever?) I would guess that the license is on the site because of RMS and not some lawyer.
knowtheory 16y ago
That is absolutely not true. There's no bigger fan of jokes and jabs w/in constraints than lawyers, and judges in particular. I know of several law schools which have competitions amongst their classes to find the weirdest, funniest, or most bizarre citation or footnote w/in legal briefs/case law. There is some weird stuff in our legal system, however they (typically) are asides amongst the core arguments, or in support of the core arguments of a legal case. Remember that good lawyers are hackers. They're trying to find edge cases and tease at the margins of the representation of the world that has been encoded in law.
- wulczer 16y ago
  Heh, it might be true, but I'm sure that lawyers that work in software companies screening the project BigCorp wants to use for potential licensing problems will share a laugh amongst them, but will then write to the boss saying: "It's risky, don't use that code".
  - knowtheory 16y ago
    Oh, i should make a distinction. Actual litigators have different jobs from corporate attorneys. Big corp legal departments are like corporate security teams. They don't want to see anything that could surprise them, and ideally they're going to lock your corporate environment down as tightly as they possibly can. Their job is to make sure no one else can screw with the way they've modeled the world.

by wulczer 16y ago

GrandMasterBirt 16y ago

Does that mean I can sue microsoft because I feel they are evil and they implement JSON?

rbanffy 16y ago
They have a proprietary, pure-evil implementation. Since they don't use the original one, but their own, they are free to use it for their evil purposes, mwahaha included.

wulczer 16y ago

By the way, just to prove I'm not such a stiff, I rememberd and quickly found this: http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions It genuinely made me laugh :)

edw 16y ago

More importantly, RMS does not come across as a person with a sense of humor. (Has any Jacobin ever?) I would guess that the license is on the site because of RMS and not some lawyer.

knowtheory 16y ago

That is absolutely not true. There's no bigger fan of jokes and jabs w/in constraints than lawyers, and judges in particular. I know of several law schools which have competitions amongst their classes to find the weirdest, funniest, or most bizarre citation or footnote w/in legal briefs/case law. There is some weird stuff in our legal system, however they (typically) are asides amongst the core arguments, or in support of the core arguments of a legal case. Remember that good lawyers are hackers. They're trying to find edge cases and tease at the margins of the representation of the world that has been encoded in law.

wulczer 16y ago
Heh, it might be true, but I'm sure that lawyers that work in software companies screening the project BigCorp wants to use for potential licensing problems will share a laugh amongst them, but will then write to the boss saying: "It's risky, don't use that code".
- knowtheory 16y ago
  Oh, i should make a distinction. Actual litigators have different jobs from corporate attorneys. Big corp legal departments are like corporate security teams. They don't want to see anything that could surprise them, and ideally they're going to lock your corporate environment down as tightly as they possibly can. Their job is to make sure no one else can screw with the way they've modeled the world.