Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by growse on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:30PM
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Eh? The national law is literally written down.
"Guesswork" doesn't seem like a good way to do anything without stumbling into a lot of confusion and miscommunication.
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by wongarsu on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:49PM
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If law was as simple as reading what's written down, then what are all the lawyers and courts for. There is a lot of interpretation going on.
But really I was referring to the process of how the laws are formed in the first place. A lot of the time they start out under-specified, and as abuses emerge we make more concrete laws using our new understanding. Of course the latter part usually leads to a lot of discussion and resistance because of the collateral damage any new law causes by being slightly broader than necessary. Which is a major reason many industries self-regulate in the attempt to make explicit laws unnecessary.
That's how society generally runs on all scales, whether we are talking about the office fridge or about national law. Things generally start with very few explicit rules, and new rules get made when they are proven necessary.