[OT] New pricing
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Apr 7 19:36:41 EDT 2013
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> The review process at Apple is notoriously capricious. Given how widely
>> varying reviews are with regard to Apple's own policies, it wouldn't be
>> surprising if some, perhaps many, of Apple's employees were unfamiliar with
>> the Free Software Foundation's findings of incompatibility between the GPL
>> and Apple's App Store policies:
>
> Commenting as a lawyer, though: there are something like seven
> billion opinions that get more weight than the FSF's on the issue.
>
> At least on version 3, they had their chance for input before it was
> written (I think version 2 predates the FSF). The general rule of
> interpretation is that you construe a document against the drafter;
> the FSF opinion gets little weight given their involvement/sort of
> being the same folks that wrote it).
I'm no attorney, but as a layperson I would find it disturbing if the
explicit intentions of the creator of a license were not given weight in
how that license is interpreted.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys
More information about the use-livecode
mailing list