Guido van Rossum wrote:
Please send in the form -- the license was a totally separate issue that I shouldn't have brought up in the same mail (or at all, in this stage anyway -- we'll work this out with the Python consortium members first).
ok.
BTW, I'm surprised by the fact that in an Open Source world I'm asked to sign a licence agreement with CNRI or to send e-mails for contributed code. If Python or Linux had had such constraints from the start, they wouldn't have been what they are today.
Unfortunately, that's the price we have to pay. What we get is legal protection from CNRI. In general CNRI has contributed a lot to Python; probably more than you realize.
I realize that. But I also realize that in case of a problem, the wet form protects CNRI, not the contributor. Hm. And what happens if you get hit by a bus? Or in 100 years when we'll dance with angels in Paradise? Will Python stay bound to CNRI with little legal possibilities to detach it, in case our successors (or you) start working in another organization? IANAL and curious. -- Vladimir MARANGOZOV | Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr http://sirac.inrialpes.fr/~marangoz | tel:(+33-4)76615277 fax:76615252