[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Mike Godwin wrote:
> geni writes:
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>> 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.
>>     
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> I like to think Kurt Gödel had some important observations in this  
> regard.
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> 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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>   

You Are Nicholas Bourbaki, And I Claim My Five Pounds.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen