Still no new license -- but draft text available

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3996EB28.2065 at seebelow.org>,
Grant Griffin  <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
>Aahz Maruch wrote:
>> In article <39952C37.6334 at seebelow.org>,
>> Grant Griffin  <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>In fact, I once worked for a certain Big Corporation which had a policy
>>>of outlawing use of ALL free software, even for development purposes,
>>>because they had gotten burned on a "trojan horse" license that was
>>>invoked when an employee used free (of cost) software.  No kidding!
>> 
>> Of course, one can get such a trojan horse license with commercial
>> software, but you already knew that.  ;-)
>
>Yup.  It kindda surprised me that the lawyers didn't figure that out. 
>But if there's any logic in their position (which is doubtful), it might
>be that people who _sell_ software have no other motive to provide it to
>users than the sale itself.

It occurs to me on second thought that the proper reaction to that
trojan horse license would be to require *all* software used in Big
Corporation to have its license vetted by the in-house lawyers (with
certain limitations so the lawyers aren't overwhelmed).
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