I agree with Ed. It is pointless to change protocol in the platform license files. It is not supposed to be a "functional" file, it is for lawyers only.
On 08.01.2020 07:52, Ed Merks wrote:
Sravan, If "we" really want to change the license that is currently used by literally 1000s of features/products, we should change it in the central license feature first and hope (which is a rather pointless hope) that all projects rebuild to use the new version and all of them contribute that to SimRel (which seems unlikely to me given this was not accomplished in the last 3 months). We'll also need to hope that all copies everywhere (EPP products, for example) are also changed (yet again). Then we should expect all users to re-review the new text because they will be forced to do so. The not-so-impressed user user can then agree yet again to what is effectively the same license. To me this all smacks of completely gratuitous work for dozens or hundreds of people with absolutely zero value because browsers switch to https automatically when visiting a web link and even if not, any concerned user can make sure they view links using https if they're concerned that they might be presented with a bogus/hacked bit of legal documentation. In the end, it's really a very inappropriate plan for the platform to make this decision for everyone without consulting anyone. After all, it's a legal document so is it really your role to decide to alter it? Moreover, should we not question whether the date needs to be changed given this is no longer the "November 22, 2017" version of this legal document?
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