[Python-Dev] Still no new license -- but draft text available

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	ge at nowhere.none [SMTP:ge at nowhere.none]
> In article <8mbeg70243j at news1.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli wrote:
> >"Guido van Rossum" <guido at beopen.com> wrote in message
> >news:200008022218.RAA04178 at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
> >    [snip]
> >> I wouldn't worry.  If the German law says that part of a license is
> >> illegal, it doesn't make it any more or less illegal whether the
> >> license warns you about this fact.
> >
> >This may be very different in Common Law traditions, such as
> >the US; I wouldn't know.  
> 
> US common law is based mainly on English common law, which, I
> think, was leftover from Roman rule in England, wasn't it?
> 
>From the Normans, IIRC.

Even-more-pedagogically-yr's,
Simon B.




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