6 Jul
2010
6 Jul
'10
6:38 p.m.
On 7/5/2010 11:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
The point of free software licenses, though (as opposed to proprietary licenses), is not mainly to go to court (to “protect IP”, as the PSF says - quite naively in my opinion); it is to enable trust among people.
Yes, that is true. Open source licenses are social documents as much as they are legal documents. However, they need to be legally enforceable so as to have their intended social effect.