[6th Draft] Open Letter to CNRI: Request for clarification

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

PREFACE: Anyone can sign this open letter. This is not only for
         hardcore coders and Python developers, but for every
         Python user/addict out there.

- more signatures
- minor editing

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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 have concerns about the license
issues that have popped up 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. To date, there has been no official statement from
your institution regarding the new Python license. We are especially
interested in the overall intent 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
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Martijn Faassen [m.faassen at vet.uu.nl]
Stuart Ford (Programmer/Analyst E.H. Boeckh Corporation)
Jay Graves
Magnus Lie Hetland (Ph.D. student Computer Science)
Konrad Hinsen (Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire CNRS)
Michael Hudson (maths grad student, Python developer) [mwh at python.net]
Aahz Maruch [aahz at pobox.com]
Gareth McCaughan
David Mertz (author of a Python column for IBM developerworks)
Edward Jason Riedy
Will Ware
Thomas Weholt
Thomas Wouters (Systems Architect, Python developer)
Moshe Zadka (mathematician, Python developer) [moshez at math.huji.ac.il]
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Please add/change/remove your signatures.

Feedback as always strongly appreciated.

or-should-I-send-the-1st-draft-<wink>-ly y'rs
Peter
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