On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:37:14 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote: > I don't actually > recall any suits about violations of the MIT or Apache licenses.
The most obvious example was that the University of Berkley counter-sued Unix System Laboratories over USL's infringement of the BSD licence. Admittedly this wasn't the MIT or Apache licence, and the circumstances were fairly special. It's a fairly safe bet that anyone who is distributing their software under such a licence is sending an implicit signal that they don't intend to sue. But it does demonstrate that MIT- style licences aren't the same as public domain -- they do impose obligations on the recipient, even if those obligations are much lighter than those of the GPL. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
