Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> <quote>
> This statement would be incomplete because it fails to mention
> that your labor is stolen from others'. ;-)
> <\quote>
> 
> My labor i.e. labor that I do myself.
> 
> How can the labor that I do myself be stolen from someone else?

That's contained in the smiley.
People tend to sell others' work as their own. I'm not saying you
do. Some licenses permit this, some licenses ask to not mention,
others require that you mention others' work.
In case people complain that they cannot "overwrite" the terms
and conditions of the GPLicense with their own, it is only fair
to ask whether they intend to sell others' work as their own.
I did use the word "ask" knowing that I didn't really
ask in the sense of asking, asking you not to question my use
of asking on the ground of questionable monosemy.

> I reply to words that people speak or write.

Natural language not only invites interpretation, the fact that
it cannot be formalized, let alone be coverd by {T, F}, is central
to some of the most precious pieces of human heritage.