[License-review] CeCILL license V2.1 for Approval

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Apr 3 19:53:31 UTC 2012


Chad Perrin scripsit:

> It seems, then, that to qualify as an open source license it would need
> to do so not only in both languages but in any mix of conditions where
> the two disagree, to account for possible interpretations in court.  That
> sounds like a mess to try to untangle.

In principle, yes.  However, any license is potentially ambiguous.  We are
not the World Supreme Court, and can only do the best we can.

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