[License-review] For approval - Russian Permissive Free Software Licence

[Richard Fontana]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:03:21 +0400
Vladimir Slyshchenkov <vaslys at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This is to formally submit for OSI License Review a new FOSS license,
> Russian Permissive Free Software Licence (RSL).  

In general I find the English text of this license quite confusing
overall. I suspect some of this might be a translation issue, but I
don't think that can be all of it. Unfortunately I don't read Russian. 

I almost feel like you wrote three different licenses here and combined
them into one. Possibly that matches some established tradition in
Russian software licensing (much as we see certain formulaic features
of many US English-language software licenses, even in the open source
area). Here I see different sections covering similar subject matter
(for just one example, limitation of liability seems to be addressed a
few different ways at different points in the text) and I'm concerned
that there may be subtle contradictions between different parts of the
license that seem to address the same issue.

I wonder if you might be able to ask someone else with Russian/English
fluency to provide an independent translation? Then I'd at least know
whether something I find confusing is a mere English idiom issue or
whether it's something more substantive or structural.

 - Richard