Quoting Bruce Perens (br...@perens.com): > The pieces you don't like aren't there because anyone likes to put > them there or because the people who wrote the license are idiots. > > There have been a lot of court cases in history. From those cases, > we know a number of things that go wrong in courts. We want you not > to get trapped by the same stuff.
Moreover, if we had our druthers, we'd prefer that hapless recipients and third-party reusers of works released under badly conceived crayon licences don't get hurt: Sadly for those of us who are friends of Papa Darwin, the people who make incompetent attempts to handwave away copyright and caselaw realities with such licences don't hurt _only_ or even primarily themselves. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss