License Committee Report for September 2009
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Mon Nov 16 16:33:28 UTC 2009
Bruce Perens scripsit:
> This could be an example of the problem of non-attorney-written licenses
> which do even their own authors a disservice because they don't work as
> expected in court. I submit that for OSI to approve a license, there
> should be an attorney willing to stand up for it and either explain why
> its terms or necessary or repair them. OSI, IMO, currently does
> developers a disservice by accepting (and thus, placing its imprimatur
> upon) licenses which are legal trash.
And then there's the Artistic License 1.0, the most trashy license we have,
and the only one beside the GPL that _has_ stood up in court.
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