[5th Draft] Open Letter to CNRI: Request for clarification

[Mikael Olofsson]

OK, add my name:

Mikael Olofsson <mikael at isy.liu.se>, PhD student in EE.

On 31-Jul-00 Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
 >  added some names
 >  
 >  <flame-shield>Should I add email addresses?</flame-shield>
 >  
 >  --- begin open letter -------------------------------------------------
 >  To: Dr. Robert E. Kahn <rkahn at cnri.reston.va.us>,
 >      (president of The Corporation for National Research Initiatives)
 >  
 >  Dear Dr. Kahn,
 >  
 >  many people in the Python community around the newsgroup
 >  comp.lang.python are deeply concerned about the latest license
 >  issues that have arisen around the new 1.6/2.0 releases.
 >  
 >  The following attached signatures represent people from the Python
 >  community who would like some clarification regarding the future of the
 >  Python language. As of now, there has been no official statement from
 >  your institution regarding the new Python license. We are especially
 >  interested in the underlying intention of this change. So we request
 >  a plain-English, non-legalese statement regarding the purpose of that
 >  change and the ways in which it affects Python's use.
 >  
 >  Kind regards,
 >  Peter Schneider-Kamp
 >  --- end open letter ----------------------------------------------------
 >  --- begin signature list -----------------------------------------------
 >  Martijn Faassen
 >  Jay Graves
 >  Konrad Hinsen (Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS))
 >  Gareth McCaughan
 >  David Mertz (author of a Python column for IBM developerworks)
 >  Edward Jason Riedy
 >  Thomas Wouters (Systems Architect, Python developer)
 >  Moshe Zadka (mathematician, Python developer)
 >  --- end signature list -------------------------------------------------
 >  
 >  Please add/change/remove your signatures.
 >  
 >  Feedback as always strongly appreciated.
 >  
 >  or-should-I-send-the-1st-draft-<wink>-ly y'rs
 >  Peter
 >  --
 >  Peter Schneider-Kamp          ++47-7388-7331
 >  Herman Krags veg 51-11        mailto:peter at schneider-kamp.de
 >  N-7050 Trondheim              http://schneider-kamp.de
 >  
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 >  
 >  -- 
 >  http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

/Mikael

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Date:    01-Aug-00
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