Still no new license -- but draft text available

[Paul Magwene]

Ah, a classic Tim Peters post... <deep sigh of satisfaction...tears
welling up in eyes..etc>

Lately it had seemed to me that Tim's posts had become "all business"
except for the odd <wink> here and there, but here he is in full form,
restoring my faith in humanity (or at least my faith in Python AI --
don't believe for a minute that I buy that the picture on the PythonLabs
site is really of some biological organism named "Tim Peters").

just-think-how-productive-he'd-be-if-he-didn't-waste-all-his-time-posting-witty-responses-to-the-newsgroup-ly
y'rs - paul



Tim Peters wrote:
[SNIP]
> 
> Indeed, I would love to release Python under this license:
> 
>     1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Individual or
>     Organization ("Licensee") accessing and otherwise using
>     Python 1.6, beta 1 software in source or binary form and
>     its associated documentation, as released at the
>     http://www.python.org Internet site on August 5, 2000 ("Python
>     1.6b1"), and Guido van Rossum, whom Licensee, by virtue of
>     accessing or otherwise using said software or documentation,
>     acknowledges is their Benevolent Dictator for Life ("BDFL"),
>     and whom Licensee undertakes never to displease by thought,
>     word or deed.
> 
>     2. Licensee agrees to do unto others as they would have done
>     unto them, unless Licensee is a masochist, in which latter
>     case Licensee agrees to answer 50 questions per day on
>     comp.lang.python, or to perform such other odious tasks as the
>     BDFL may assign to them from time to time, at His sole
>     discretion and pleasure.
> 
>     3. Licensee agrees that the BDFL is not responsible for
>     anything bad that happens.  Licensee agrees to publicly praise
>     the BDFL for everything good that happens.
> 
>     4. Licensee agrees that this clause is not self-referential.
> 
>     5. Licensee agrees that defining the difference between
>     clicking and not clicking is an epistimelogical impossibility.
> 
>     6. Licensee agrees that there is only one way to do it.
> 
> some-dictators-for-life-are-better-than-others-ly y'rs  - tim

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Paul Magwene
paul.magwene at yale.edu