On Samedi, d�ce 28, 2002, at 02:36 Europe/Brussels, Henri Yandell wrote:
Maybe you're right though, more of these questions from users would forceThe thing is, of course, that where the hard to understand licenses are, there is no forum. Java Servlets or Jaxp for example...
more contexts to be considered and the community's understanding of the
concepts to improve.
From time to time, one sees an article about the newest surprises of this or that licenses. For example microsoft obtaining the right to install software on my machine (a Mac in this case) which should protect copyright of authors...
Maybe such initiatives as ODRL (http://www.odrl.net) and the implementations related to this (which turn the odrl-encoded license into rights and prohibitions) would also turn more attention to this.
I'm sure it would actually: if you have a program that tells you you may or may not, a good computer-scientist, if offended by the "may" or "may not", would want to go into there. And a good hacker will want to know wether it's a bug of the system, a bug of the encoded-license, or... a real license intent...
Paul
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