Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One point that frequently gets ignored in licensing debates: > > The value of a license is directly proportional to the amount of > time, effort, and money you are willing to spend enforcing it.
That's a very important factor, yes. > It doesn't matter how fancy the legal wording is - it is up to you, > as the copyright holder, to bring legal action This is true as far as it goes. What is sought, though, is not "fancy legal wording", but clarity of intent. The wording is *extremely* important, since it must express, as clearly and unambiguously as possible, the intent of the license granter. Legal action and judicial interpretation will play their part, but the clearer you can make the license text, the less guesswork is needed on both sides to determine what is and is not permitted in the license terms. The GNU GPL, and the Expat license (née X11, MIT, 2-clause BSD, etc.), are popular in part because the intent of their terms is expressed very clearly. -- \ "He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." -- | `\ Maurits Cornelis Escher | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
