Bruce Perens scripsit: > 1. They are ambiguous or likely to perform in court in unexpected > ways, should they ever be litigated. And thus they are harmful to > their users. De-listing is a prompt to the organization that > originally created the license to replace it with an accepted > license or to submit a new version with greater legal competence in > its construction. These would be the "crayon" licenses, mostly, > those written without legal counsel.
And yet the Artistic License 1.0, which is riddled with ambiguities and a prototypical crayon license, is one of the few that has been tested in court -- and stood up. -- John Cowan <[email protected]> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The internet is a web of tiny tyrannies giving an illusion of anarchy. --David Rush _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
