Mark Hammond wrote: >... > Actually, this is a good point. I know the issue of payment may get > in the way, but it would make sense to have any future proposed > licenses reviewed by a lawyer "on our side" - eg, someone whose > mandate is to give a legal opinion on the risks and liabilities of the > _user_ of the license. Interesting thought! > Obviously the CNRI lawers are protecting their > (ie, CNRI's) interests, and everyone on this group is concerned about > their own (ie, personally, their company, or companies they wish to > introduct Python into) interests. Because of these varied interests, I don't think a review by a particular lawyer will be greatly helpful. The question will still remain: "did the lawyer review it from [my/our/company] perspective?" This will lead people back into the same review cycle. >... > But as I said, who will pay? If nothing else, we should ensure the > OSI approves of the new license... Or maybe we can convince CNRI > there is real and serious concern, and they could pay for an external > IP lawyer? Definitely having an OSI certification will be great (cool stuff on the cert for the existing license!). Having Bruce Perens review the license would also be a great boon (see www.perens.com for some of his writings; also see http://perens.com/Termination.html specifically). Licenses are a tough issue. I had to go through this entire morass when deciding what to do with mod_dav. There are a lot of varieties and issues and stuff to cover. I've read a bunch of license (not to mention a bazillion legal documents during the eShop/acquisition days). Not always exciting reading :-), but usually quite interesting. At this point, I think it is a great thing that CNRI is reviewing the license. Unfortunately, the license wasn't as non-controversial as it was thought to be :-(. I'm more than happy to wait and see where they go with the license. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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