5 Jul
2010
5 Jul
'10
11:58 p.m.
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,