[vlc] Unfortunate wording

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Tue Sep 22 14:11:55 CEST 2009


On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:55:24 +0200, "Joe Woodburn"
<joe_woodburn at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  In your section of the license entitled 'How to Apply These Terms to
Your
> New Programs'
> 
> I can't help thinking that Ty Coon is not a particularly good pun.  I
> appreciate your intentions, but I'm sure you're aware how popular the
name
> Tyrone is with African Americans.
> 
> The extract in question:
> <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
> Ty Coon, President of Vice

This is verbatim from the Free Software Fundation (http://www.fsf.org/).
We cannot change the wording of the license.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont




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