From kde-licensing  Wed Nov 28 17:18:38 2007
From: Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:18:38 +0000
To: kde-licensing
Subject: Re: Updated Licence Policy
Message-Id: <20071128171838.GB9248 () muse ! 19inch ! net>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:00:18PM -0800, Andreas wrote:
>    I respectfully disagree with your conclusion re: the membership.  The
>    GPL is pretty clear how acceptance is manifested - "that proxy's
>    public statement of acceptance of a version *permanently* authorizes
>    you to choose that version for the Program".  Section 8(5) of the KDE
>    eV's charter specifies that "[e]ach individual board member has the
>    right to represent the [eV] to outside parties" and the charter does
>    not clearly reserve the authority to approve a license to the
>    membership.  So it seems to me that if the KDE eV board (or an
>    officer) publicly stated that the version was accepted, the issue is
>    settled, irrespective of what the membership thinks.  Personally I
>    think this is rather unwise.

OK, you convinced me, I've updated the draft.

Jonathan
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