> > > Such a note is nice and short, but not legally binding and > > > confusing since it is not clear whether the "handle" for the > > > document will always return the same license text or if it > > > will return a license text at all. > > > > Why do you say it's not legally binding? The CNRI license explicitly > > allows you to use this exact text instead of including the whole CNRI > > license. > > Sure, but not including the verbatim text will produce an > unpleasent feeling of not being sure about the completeness > of the license text. > > <nitpicker-suite> > > In a law suit the above construct would > certainly not hold, since URLs only describe the location of > information and don't hold any information about the validity > or origin of it. The situation would be a little better if CNRI > had provided a PGP signature or fingerprint of the license, > since this is (in some countries) a legally accepted way of > determining those two criteria. > > Just a side note: the URL given for the license results in a > redirect to a different URL - > http://www.handle.net/python_licenses/python1.6_9-5-00.html > (note the date !): this doesn't really give the impression of > persistent unchangeable information. > > </nitpicker-suite> Funny... I agree that's not very confidence-inspiring. CNRI always advertises handles as better than URLs for long-term persistent documents, but it's clear that they didn't think of this! Or maybe (warning: fake conspiracy theory ahead :-) they intend to change the license terms after the fact... > Not that there's much to fear about... but why add any extra areas > of uncertainty ? Agreed. I'll add the full text back in. > > I was just trying to save space. ActivePython does the same thing as > > far as I remember. > > Space?... the download is 3.9 Megs ;-) I meant less text for the reader to wade through. But you've convinced me already. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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