Proposal for P2P disclaimer text

[Scott Wheeler]

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 16:44, Martin Köbele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after I just released Apollon 0.9.3 I asked a debian-developer to update the 
> repository. And I just had to learn that the proposed suggestions (by Petter 
> Stockke and Andreas Pour) violate the GPL.
> 
> GPL §0:  "[...]The act of running the Program is not restricted,[...]".
> 
> 
> So we can't restrict, we could warn though.

Actually it's not an additional restriction -- it essentially says "You aren't 
allowed to break the law with this" -- which is stating something that is 
true whether you state it or not...

If I put "you are allowed to break the law with this" into a license it 
doesn't have any bearing on it being that actually being allowed.  ;-)

But anyway -- I'd actually prefer to have it as a warning (possibly in a 
slightly shortened form than the one suggested) in the program...

- -Scott

- -- 
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest 
person to fool. 
- --Richard Feynman 

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