[2003-06-25] David Abrahams wrote: >Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ~~~~ >> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization >> obtaining a copy of the software covered by this license (the "Software") >> to: use, reproduce, display, distribute, execute, transmit, > >This part of the list lacks a subject "The Software". > >> prepare derivative works of the Software, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Which you want to avoid confusing with this.
Then perhaps two separate sentences would make that distinction clear. >This part of the license has been fairly carefully worked out. It's >good to make things read more easily, but they must retain their >unambiguous meaning.** I see that all of it was carefully crafted (not being sarcastic, just in case). I was just trying to portray what I understood. Which, since it is different than what the Lawyers meant is a problem IMO. >> and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to do >> so, > >I prefer "and to permit others to do so". This phrase has just been >approved by the lawyers as legally equivalent, and it's much easier to >read, so I hope we'll use it. Shorter is good :-) >> all subject to the following: > > > >> The copyright notice in the Software and this entire statement, including >> the above license grant, this restriction, and the following disclaimer, >> must be included, in whole or in part, in all copies of the >> Software, and > >That makes it sounds like it's OK to include just part of the >copyright, license, etc. Once again my remarks (**) apply here. Yes I saw, and I thought my later reply pointed that out. But perhaps it also didn't :-\ I'll say it again more directly... It's good work from the Lawyers. Being easily understood and still legally accurate are very hard things to reconcile. -- grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- rrivera (at) acm.org - grafik (at) redshift-software.com -- 102708583 (at) icq _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
