still seems to contain egregious (but relatively harmless) silliness

still seems to contain egregious (but relatively harmless) silliness

Posted Apr 1, 2007 20:31 UTC (Sun) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: still seems to contain egregious (but relatively harmless) silliness by njs
Parent article: SIL Open Font License revised (Linux.com)

> Another hard-won lesson is that trying to express intent and moral suasion in the legal text of a license is a really bad idea; let the license proper concentrate on defining what happens when lawsuits pop up, and put information about intent in clear English (e.g., in a Preamble that must always be included with the license itself).

You mean, like, in GPL v3?

</me ducks and looks for cover>

:-) Joachim

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