[License-discuss] Does this look like an open source license?

Jim Wright jim.wright at oracle.com
Sun Jan 25 10:51:41 UTC 2015


Do you have a link or case name?  I am curious to read more about this holding.

 -- Jim


> On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:47 PM, Maxthon Chan <xcvista at me.com> wrote:
> 
> The incident is that one project owner found his code used in an commercial product without attribution but the Chinese-speaking court says that the license is not enforceable if it is written in a language that the judge cannot understand, and that particular judge have only beginner level English.
> 
> This lead me to create two thing: a 3c-BSD equivalent in simple English, and a 3c-BSD equivalent in Chinese (under law of Mainland China).



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