Proposed license from AT&T

[Justin Wells]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 10:24:36AM -0400, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:
> I agree that the ATT license is a bit legalistic and could be written in
> clearer language, but there is much to be learned from there draft. It is
> written so that a court will enforce it, and that is not a bad idea for open
> source licenses.

Hi Rod,

I'm curious to hear whether you think there are any particular things which
make the AT&T more enforceable than other open source licenses, or whether 
it's just generally better written. 

For example, does the capsule idea make it more enforceable? The QPL has
a similar way of doing things (requiring patch files) but the problem is
that this is cumbersome for a developer. It adds a lot of unnecessary 
overhead when you have many people collaborating on a project.

For example, is it legal to check capsule-ized code into a standard 
source management system like CVS?

Justin