Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I'm not bothered if people put "under the same terms > > as otherthing" as we can do a reasonable substitution and I doubt > > anyone would have a problem with that, would they? > > I think it's a problem. Did you read the document I wrote?
Yes. Do I think it's confusing and exaggerates? Yes. > "Under the > same terms as C" is crazy, so why do we accept "Under the same terms as > Python" when there are 3 major distributions of Python with wildly > different licensing terms? And even within those distributions, the > licensing is not homogeneous. Lack of clarity is a problem, but there are many cases of otherthing which are clearer than the irrelevant C example. Isn't "under the same terms as Python" under all current and future PSF Python licences at the time of writing, similar to licensing under GPL version 2 or later? Now, you can argue that it's a silly thing to do, but licensors granting silly licences is not new. Who cares as long as it follows DFSG somehow? > "Python" is a language, not a program, and does not have a license. > Alternately, "Python" is a distribution of a language and standard > library, and has many licenses (with potentially conflicting terms). In > neither case is "Under the same terms as Python" acceptable. The primary implementation is widely known as Python and the main interpreter has a particular licence. That seems obvious. That's different to C, Lisp or Scheme, which each have many implementations, none more authoritative than the others. I think most of these will be obvious. If you suspect someone of building a lawyerbomb, ask them for confirmation of the specifics, but I think suggesting relicensing to all is overreacting to this. > These arguments apply mutatis mutandis to most languages I'm aware of. Please use English on debian-legal, not Latin. Bonvole, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
