License Committee Report for September 2009

[John Cowan]

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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While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from      John Cowan
the Candensian plane, which is very much like       cowan at ccil.org
ours, only more of it consists of Toronto.          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        --Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes