Subject: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from [Geoff Kuenning
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>From owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com Fri Jul 6 01:56:24 2001
> I hope none of your contributors mind, though :-/. To be completely
You misunderstand the nature of the contributions and of my license.
In any large population, there are some people who aren't very bright.
That's not their fault, it's just in their genes. As an engineer, I have a
responsibility to design things that won't kill off the slower ones, just as
I have a responsibility to design things that won't harm my neighbor's dog.
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From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff@cs.hmc.edu>
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In-reply-to: <20010705234513.A25440@vitelus.com> (message from Aaron Lehmann
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Subject: Re: Copyright of Modified Ispell Code (fwd)
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> fair, maybe you ought to give them an month or so to speak up before
> making a new release with this change. I can't see why they would
> mind, as it's your name, but it could be impolite to change the
> license from under them.
It is my call alone. The current release doesn't even list all
contributors, as it became too much work to track them all.
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Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/