Re: An attempt to be constructive

[email protected] (Russ Allbery) 12 Sep 2000 22:47:21 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.licenses
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Nandor <[email protected]> writes:

> That's just silly.  None of those issues were around when the BSD and
> MIT licenses were penned.  They are very simple licenses that most any
> reasonable person could have written.

I think it's pretty obvious from the wording of both of those licenses
that they were written by lawyers given initial instructions on what the
licenses should say.

> None of them could cite chapter and verse what the issues are that you
> are referring to, because those issues were not around back then.

Neither of those licenses are trying to do anything nearly as complex as
the AL is.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>