2009/3/5 Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com>: > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Matt Amos wrote: > > us trying to read a complex license > without comments is like lawyers trying to read complex code without > comments. > > They're mostly hard to read because they're tedious in their detail. Legal > writing isn't actually THAT impenetrable, if you can stay awake (no, > seriously, I can only read 2-3 licenses at a time before I start to nod off. > Takes me DAYS to read all the OSI-approved licenses). >
The whole code/comments analogy seems the wrong one. Most people are after the user manual -- I don't want a step by step description of how the license works, I want a nice manual telling me how to use it. And like most open source projects there currently isn't one (at least not an up-to-date one). And for pretty much the same reasons (lack of people who are not one of: busy coding, rubbish at writing manuals, don't understand the program). Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
