[OT] New pricing

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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