<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM Smith, McCoy <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com">mccoy.smith@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">I found this submission very confusing, in part because it seems to be a series of licenses and/or disclaimers sequentially superimposed on other licenses or
disclaimers, each of which appears to indicate that it applies to different versions of a particular piece of software.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When I looked at the Python license tangle, which was many years ago, I concluded that only the most recent license was actually applicable, and that the other licenses were inert but could not be removed because they themselves said they could not be, like so many DNA viruses -- they get copied when Python is but have no function at all.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a></div><div>You let them out again, Old Man Willow!</div><div>What you be a-thinking of? You should not be waking!</div><div>Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep!</div><div>Bombadil is talking.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>