Python 2.0b1 is released!
Tim Peters
tim_one at email.msn.com
Tue Sep 12 05:54:46 EDT 2000
[Suchandra Thapa]
> From my understanding, CNRI is located in Virginia
Yes.
> and so it makes sense for them to want the license to be interpeted
> under the laws of the state they're in.
That too.
> I really don't think that this is a plot to use UCITA to carry
> out some underhanded scheme.
Indeed, I've seen email from Dr. Kahn critical of UCITA.
> I would be more worried if CNRI wanted their license to be interpeted
> under some state that they have no connection with.
I do wish people could refrain from reading so much into these twiddly
little details of the license. This is a great case in point: *if* it
turns out that the FSF has some particular problem with Virginia law, but
wouldn't with, for example, New York law, I bet CNRI might just go along
with changing that. They simply don't want the license interpreted in
near-arbitrary ways by random yahoo courts. choice-of-law clauses are
common as dirt, apparently because they work.
or-maybe-just-fail-less-often<wink>-ly y'rs - tim
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