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Not sure if naïveté or innocence, but I think you are overestimating the GPL efforts by a lot. RMS may not be a fool but he is still American (and not a lawyer
by ameixaseca 5y ago
Not sure if naïveté or innocence, but I think you are overestimating the GPL efforts by a lot.
RMS may not be a fool but he is still American (and not a lawyer). I don't think he was focused in solving licensing/copyright issues in the rest of the world in the early 90s - and even late efforts for GPLv3 didn't change it that much.
- mcguire 5y agoEben Moglen (https://softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ https://softwarefreedom.org/about/team/) is a lawyer. The GPL has been in existence for more than 30 years and has been enforced in multiple countries that are not the US, including France.
- ameixaseca 5y agoYou are talking about GPLv3, of course. In any case, this was posted along the discussion here, and you might find it interesting: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.en.html