On May 15, 12:50 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:37:14 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> The most obvious example was that the University of Berkley counter-sued > Unix System Laboratories over USL's infringement of the BSD licence. Well, I specifically excluded BSD for this reason. But in any case, I'd be willing to place a small wager that it's the *only* (rather than merely the "most obvious") example you can find... > Admittedly this wasn't the MIT or Apache licence, and the circumstances > were fairly special. It's a fairly safe bet that anyone who is > distributing their software under such a licence is sending an implicit > signal that they don't intend to sue. Right. > But it does demonstrate that MIT- > style licences aren't the same as public domain -- they do impose > obligations on the recipient, even if those obligations are much lighter > than those of the GPL. And I certainly have never deliberately attempted to mislead on this point. Regards, Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
