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It sounds like there's some confusion here between "hard legal obligation to give non-binding external advice" versus "moral and practical obligation to fix the binding wording if they are actually interested in mutual agreement and understanding."

I suspect most people asking Mr. Mullenweg "what do you mean by X" are doing so with a subtext or next-step of "now go fix the text to correctly capture what you really meant."



I’m reading “he shouldn't get to ask” [1] as distinct from he shouldn’t ask in a hard legal sense.

> with a subtext or next-step of "now go fix the text to correctly capture what you really meant"

That’s unreasonable. An e-mailed clarification is a reasonable ask. (Adding a clarification is nice. But not a reasonable expectation. Especially from a proven nutjob.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975496




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