Antoine Pitrou writes: > Which is the very wrong thing to do, though. License text should be > understandable by non-lawyer people;
This is a common mistake, at least with respect to common-law systems. Licenses are written in a formal language intended to have precise semantics, especially in the event of a dispute going to court. What you wrote is precisely analogous to "a computer program should be understandable to non-programmer people". The fact is, in the U.S. if an ordinary person thinks they understand a license, then it's probably quite unpredictable what a court will say about attempts to enforce it. WTF-an-economist-defending-lawyers??!?!!-ly y'rs, _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
