Python License Issues

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.1013627905.10961.python-list at python.org>,
 <christoforou at gaaros.com> wrote:
>
>Some clients demand a certain level of 'protection' from situations    
>of gross misconduct, say python has stolen major chunks of code        
>from other apps and thus exposing them to huge legal risks. We can     
>consider accepting liability on all third party code we use, for       
>such gross misconduct situations but is it technically possible to     
>do so given the PSF license? Ideally we would like to negotiate a      
>single license agreement with these clients (our license agreement)    
>which provides additional liability over and above to that which PSF   
>provides. However given clause 4 it seems that the client *must*       
>directly be bound by the PSF license.                                  
>
>Any comments?

Yeah.  You need to hire an intellectual property lawyer with experience
in Open Source issues.  I don't know how many of those are on the other
side of the pond.
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