[Python-Dev] Licensing // PSF // Motion of non-confidence

[VanL]

On 7/5/2010 11:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> The point of free software licenses, though (as opposed to proprietary
> licenses), is not mainly to go to court (to “protect IP”, as the PSF
> says - quite naively in my opinion); it is to enable trust among people.

Yes, that is true. Open source licenses are social documents as much as 
they are legal documents. However, they need to be legally enforceable 
so as to have their intended social effect.