On 02/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:00:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
saintonge(a)telus.net writes:
IIRC some people were claiming
that he should have gotten permission from the convenient passerby who
actually snapped the shot before he put the picture online.>>
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A good example of the kind of ridiculous behaviour that causes people to
leave the project, and which harms the project. Bureaucratic adherence to some
letter or worse a fixated interpretation of some policy, instead of making
any attempt to understand the *spirit* of what we're trying to do.
The spirit of what we are trying to do is an irrelevance in this case.
It is a question of law. The answer FWIW appears to be that it is an
issue of contract law and no we've asked appears to be sure of the
answer.
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geni