[License-discuss] Does this look like an open source license?

[Maxthon Chan]

The incident is that one project owner found his code used in an commercial product without attribution but the Chinese-speaking court says that the license is not enforceable if it is written in a language that the judge cannot understand, and that particular judge have only beginner level English.

This lead me to create two thing: a 3c-BSD equivalent in simple English, and a 3c-BSD equivalent in Chinese (under law of Mainland China).

> On Jan 23, 2015, at 11:07, Ben Cotton <bcotton at funnelfiasco.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd be really interested to learn more about the incident in question. Knowing what made the BSD 3-Clause insufficient might help improve the language.
> 
> Constraining the license text to only include the words in the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary sounds like a fun challenge. I'll see what sort of concrete suggestions I can come up with (again with the disclaimer that I am merely a license enthusiast).
> 
> Thanks,
> BC
> 
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