Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Liam!

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:45:25 -0400
Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 17:16 -0400, Rick Kline wrote:
> > Well, selling . html was written by a lawyer, wasn’t it? ;-)  
>
> The primary author of SGML, the language on which HTML was based, was
> written by a lawyer (Dr. Charles Goldfarb).

I think Rick was referring to "selling.html" i.e: the document at
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html - it is just that the period was
surrounded by spaces.

Note that there is also https://www.gimp.org/about/selling.html . 

> HTML itself came from the SGML Starter Set via Anders Berglund to (now
> Sir) Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Neither Tim nor Robert Cailliau working
> on the Web anf HTML at the start were (or are) lawyers.
>
> Shlomi Fish has already responded to you on the GPL, although the FSF
> spent a lot of time in consultations in developing GPL v3, and that
> included significant input from laywers.
>
> Liam (slave ankh)



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