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<blockquote data-quote="Enrahim2" data-source="post: 8921470" data-attributes="member: 7039850"><p>So you were the one giving them this idea!?</p><p></p><p>(Hopefully) joke asside, I want to point out that they haven't actually clarified their legal position at all. They have only made a statement about "no longer authorized" - a statement that as far as I understand is basically void of well established meaning. Moreover they have made some vague statements about the effects of this in ill defined terms like "SRD-based", and without any clear statements as to how they perceived future downstream work.</p><p></p><p>It so happens that the extreme vagueness of their statement do not exclude them clumsily refering to those issues you perceived many years ago. However if this was what they were really intending to say they had ample time to clarify their language between 1.1 and 1.2. That they kept the same basic empty formulations make them seem much more like the bully teen claiming the school gate, and when asked under what right answers "Just because. Now give me your lunch money as toll". While some first graders might just hand over their money to avoid trouble despite knowing what the bully does is not having any serious legal backing.</p><p></p><p>Of course the teen would not get much business if there are a bunch of adults around assuring the kids that they can just go past, and if the teen try with more than words, they are ready to step in. (And then we have the lawyer in the back shouting to everyone "Actually, the kid has a point. The gate is slightly outside the regulated school ground, and according to this ancient rarely used law...")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enrahim2, post: 8921470, member: 7039850"] So you were the one giving them this idea!? (Hopefully) joke asside, I want to point out that they haven't actually clarified their legal position at all. They have only made a statement about "no longer authorized" - a statement that as far as I understand is basically void of well established meaning. Moreover they have made some vague statements about the effects of this in ill defined terms like "SRD-based", and without any clear statements as to how they perceived future downstream work. It so happens that the extreme vagueness of their statement do not exclude them clumsily refering to those issues you perceived many years ago. However if this was what they were really intending to say they had ample time to clarify their language between 1.1 and 1.2. That they kept the same basic empty formulations make them seem much more like the bully teen claiming the school gate, and when asked under what right answers "Just because. Now give me your lunch money as toll". While some first graders might just hand over their money to avoid trouble despite knowing what the bully does is not having any serious legal backing. Of course the teen would not get much business if there are a bunch of adults around assuring the kids that they can just go past, and if the teen try with more than words, they are ready to step in. (And then we have the lawyer in the back shouting to everyone "Actually, the kid has a point. The gate is slightly outside the regulated school ground, and according to this ancient rarely used law...") [/QUOTE]
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