The State of Python

[Dan Smart]

tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters) wrote in
<LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCIEEAGMAA.tim_one at email.msn.com>: 
>  The decision to put something in the public domain is
>irrevocable, so stops that game before it starts.  In the area of
>programming languages, the decision to develop Icon 
>(http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/) in the public domain has granted Ralph 
>Griswold a long, happy and lawyer-free life.
>

WARNING (IANAL but have been advised by one)
Putting something in the public domain involves releasing it without a 
license and I have been told that this is extremely risky. Apparently the 
primary purpose of a BSD style license is to limit liability - typically to 
no more than you paid for the software (i.e. nothing). With out such a 
license clause, or indeed a license at all, you are potentially open to 
unlimited liability in the event that a user of your software suffers harm 
from such use - even though they paid nothing for it.
This struck me as insane, but I have been assured that this is the case.


>not-speaking-for-anyone-ly y'rs  - tim

Barely-communicating-ly yours
Dan

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