[6th Draft] Open Letter to CNRI: Request for clarification

[Dag Sunde]

Can you add my name as well?

Dag Sunde
Software "Carpenter" :)
Orion Systems As
Arendal, Norway


"Peter Schneider-Kamp" <nowonder at nowonder.de> wrote in message
news:39861173.30E94EDC at nowonder.de...
> PREFACE: Anyone can sign this open letter. This is not only for
>          hardcore coders and Python developers, but for every
>          Python user/addict out there.
>
> - more signatures
> - minor editing
>
> --- begin open
letter -------------------------------------------------
> To: Dr. Robert E. Kahn <rkahn at cnri.reston.va.us>,
>     (president of The Corporation for National Research Initiatives)
>
> Dear Dr. Kahn,
>
> Many people in the Python community have concerns about the license
> issues that have popped up around the new 1.6/2.0 releases.
>
> The following attached signatures represent people from the Python
> community who would like some clarification regarding the future of
the
> Python language. To date, there has been no official statement from
> your institution regarding the new Python license. We are especially
> interested in the overall intent of this change. So we request a
> plain-English, non-legalese statement regarding the purpose of that
> change and the ways in which it affects Python's use.
>
> Kind regards,
> Peter Schneider-Kamp
> --- end open
letter ----------------------------------------------------
> --- begin signature
list -----------------------------------------------
> Martijn Faassen [m.faassen at vet.uu.nl]
> Stuart Ford (Programmer/Analyst E.H. Boeckh Corporation)
> Jay Graves
> Magnus Lie Hetland (Ph.D. student Computer Science)
> Konrad Hinsen (Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire CNRS)
> Michael Hudson (maths grad student, Python developer) [mwh at python.net]
> Aahz Maruch [aahz at pobox.com]
> Gareth McCaughan
> David Mertz (author of a Python column for IBM developerworks)
> Edward Jason Riedy
> Will Ware
> Thomas Weholt
> Thomas Wouters (Systems Architect, Python developer)
> Moshe Zadka (mathematician, Python developer) [moshez at math.huji.ac.il]
> --- end signature
list -------------------------------------------------
>
> Please add/change/remove your signatures.
>
> Feedback as always strongly appreciated.
>
> or-should-I-send-the-1st-draft-<wink>-ly y'rs
> Peter
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