Still no new license -- but draft text available

[William Tanksley]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:36:24 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>[Guido, posting the draft CNRI Open Source license for Python 1.6b1]

>> >BY CLICKING ON "ACCEPT" WHERE INDICATED BELOW, OR BY COPYING,
>> >INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6, beta 1 SOFTWARE, YOU ARE
>> >DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE
>> >AGREEMENT.

>[William Tanksley]
>> Why should it be click-through?  Why not just say, "you may not
>> use (or copy, etc.) this software outside of the terms of this
>> license."  You know, the same way the GPL applies itself.

>Speaking only for me, I don't think anyone will get anywhere with random
>quibbles (sorry, Billy, but the above just doesn't strike me as a
>*substantive* concern).  What I'd personally like to know is whether anyone
>in the community finds something in the license that's a genuine showstopper
>for them.

Nope, no problems at all.  That was only an honest question, not a quibble
-- had it been a quibble, it would have been preceded and followed by text
taken out of context and replied to derisively at great length.

:-)

-- 
-William "Billy" Tanksley