On 7/28/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
I has negative consequences. It makes the project less free. We've already got enough problems with people ignoreing copyright. We don't need any more.
Allowing a mechanism whereby people can explicitly state that for once they are consciously ignoring copyright, based on consensus achieved with a wide group of other users does not sound like the top of a slippery slope to me. Nor does it sound irreversible.
But there you go.
Steve