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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Cowan wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That's an evocative example. Like the voluminous DNA that has been incorporated into human DNA over the eons, much of it is unused and harmless. It is baggage in every sperm cell. Don't worry about it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Copying even inert licenses and other notices into source code is a trivial burden on developers. Just do it wherever you distribute source code, probably somewhere on your website, and commit it to our common history....<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>However, I believe that nothing in the OSD or a license requires that the DNA also appear in a specific part of executable code or on an end-user screen. That would be a virus!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>/Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b>From:</b> License-review <license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Cowan<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 5, 2018 10:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> License submissions for OSI review <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br><b>Cc:</b> henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] For Approval: libpng license, version 2.0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM Smith, McCoy <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com">mccoy.smith@intel.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#1F497D'>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><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>You let them out again, Old Man Willow!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>What you be a-thinking of? You should not be waking!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Bombadil is talking.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>