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

Maxthon Chan xcvista at me.com
Mon Jan 26 13:42:17 UTC 2015


That incident is only heard from friends. Also court documents is not made public in China.

In this country lots of stuff is not made public. Don’t feel strange for the lack of transparency.

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 18:51, Jim Wright <jim.wright at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Do you have a link or case name?  I am curious to read more about this holding.
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:47 PM, Maxthon Chan <xcvista at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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).
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