Pamela Chestek wrote at 09:54 (EDT) on Monday: > And the major substantive aspects are what is captured in the summary.
A major issue, I think, is that most people are really bad at writing good summaries of licenses. FWIW, a group of user interface researchers who have worked with Free Software extensively offered years ago to help draft user interface documents/systems that would help navigate an annotated text of various popular Free Software licenses and explain what they mean in a way that's grokkable by those who don't read licenses for a living. I asked many lawyers/licensing experts whom I knew at the time to volunteer to help on this project, and I sadly couldn't get anyone interested. The project died before it began. If there's interest in this again, I could start a thread off-list. Email me if you're interested in helping in this sort of effort, and I'll start the thread, but please be serious and ready to put time forward -- as I don't want to waste these researchers' time with another false start. -- -- bkuhn _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
