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

[Lars von Wedel]

Please add mine, too!

Lars von Wedel (vonWedel at lfpt.rwth-aachen.de)
Systems Architect
Process Systems Engineering
Technical University of Aachen, Germany

Lars




Dag Sunde writes:
 > Can you add my name as well?
 > 
 > Dag Sunde
 > [...]
 > 
 > 
 > "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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 > > Peter Schneider-Kamp          ++47-7388-7331
 > > Herman Krags veg 51-11        mailto:peter at schneider-kamp.de
 > > N-7050 Trondheim              http://schneider-kamp.de
 > >
 > 
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