On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:00:00AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting David Woolley: > > > > I suspect that licences with lots of legalese discriminate against > > medium size enterprises. > > Oh, bushwah. Any layman who wants to understand in even paranoid levels > of detail the major licences and has two hours to spare can pull down > the PDF of Larry Rosen's book free of charge, among other methods of > arriving at that understanding. > > And any of them who cannot comprehend MIT/X after two hours even without > Larry's book probably should rethink running a business.
I don't think David Woolley was saying the MIT/X11 License was "lots of legalese". I think the point was about licenses at least three times the size of that one. That, at least, is how I understood it; CC0 pushes that barrier to understanding for the layman pretty hard, and many (longer) licenses blow right through it like it wasn't even there, such as a few very popular OSI-approved licenses longer than any Microsoft EULA I have ever seen. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
