geni writes:
In any case vagueness has it's uses since any attempt to try and define everything will tend to result in the license either failing or behaving in a very unhelpful manner under certain conditions.
I like to think Kurt Gödel had some important observations in this regard.
One of the things I see as a lawyer and as a student in philosophy is the attempt in the GFDL to cover every possible use case with specificity -- this effort is not wholly incomparable to the effort to explain all of mathematics in terms of logic and set theory.
--Mike
Mike Godwin wrote:
geni writes:
In any case vagueness has it's uses since any attempt to try and define everything will tend to result in the license either failing or behaving in a very unhelpful manner under certain conditions.
I like to think Kurt Gödel had some important observations in this regard.
One of the things I see as a lawyer and as a student in philosophy is the attempt in the GFDL to cover every possible use case with specificity -- this effort is not wholly incomparable to the effort to explain all of mathematics in terms of logic and set theory.
--Mike
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