[wp-hackers] beating a dead horse

[Alex King]

I was intending this to be used as background for future discussions, 
not re-opening past discussions. I thought we'd put the GPL issue to 
bed.

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Jul 14, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Carthik Sharma wrote:

> Hey Alex,
>
> It says it is for IETF documents marked with the paragraph
> <quote>
> This document defines these words as they should be
>    interpreted in IETF documents.  Authors who follow these guidelines
>    should incorporate this phrase near the beginning of their document:
>
>       The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL
>       NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and
>       "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
>       RFC 2119.
> </quote>
>
> I am not trying to be argumentative, just saying that these terms may
> not be applicable to the GPL as such.
>
> Any word on the WordPress GPL issue? That discussion seems to have
> died, under rather unfortunate circumstances.
>
> I thought Mike's comments made sense, and that we should conform to
> specifications, just like the product conforms to standards.
>
> Regards,
> Carthik.
>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:28:39 -0600, Alex King <alex at alexking.org> 
> wrote:
>> I'm *not* intending to open up old arguments, but tripped on this in
>> Pilgrims blogmarks:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
>>
>> :)
>>
>> --Alex
>>
>> http://www.alexking.org/
>>
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>
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