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[Colby Hoke]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 10/07/2009 03:10 PM, Colby Hoke wrote:
>   
>> I understand all of that. I'm saying what if someone else cuts it up and
>> each time he mentions developers, he suddenly says Nazis. (Yeah I went
>> there, I'm just saying...)
>>     
>
> I tend to believe that the people who want to make disgusting and
> hateful remixes of our content will do so irregardless of our licensing
> model. 
Absolutely.
> By restricting derivative works, we merely prevent those with
> good and positive intentions from doing so.
>
>   
Yep!
> Or, to frame it another way, should we prevent people from making code
> changes to our software because they could turn the software into
> dangerous viruses or Nazi themed window managers? (Hey, you went there
> first.)
>
> ~spot
>
>   
I absolutely agree. I'm not in control, just explaining why it is the 
way it is.

This is an argument I've been having for, oh, 2 1/2 years.

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