At 01:46 29/06/99 , Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
So how come you're not telling us to do it instead? Legally, there are
five other people that can send them the same note. Who are they
anyway? Companies that were approved through on core@ but mailed you
personally for a hard copy?
They all went through core. I have the list on my box which is in a box
at home. I'll dig it out. The most pressing being the company in UK
doing some educational software thing. I have been having all sorts of
problems with them because their lawyers wanted to write something up for
us to sign which I didn't agree to.
Why didn't you agree to it? Why didn't you at the very least consult with the rest of us?
Basically my feeling on this clause is that we have absolutely no way to
legally challenge anybody if they choose to ignore it.
So you prove my point from a couple of days ago, on php4beta@, that suggested that the license was useless since we were the ones who phrased it, and we're not even half way lawyers. I guess you weren't thinking of that clause that really doesn't mean much to you...
And the people who
are out to screw us are not the people who sit down and read licenses
carefully anyway.
Whether they read licenses carefully or not is entirely their problem - it gives us ground to sue them in case they violate the license.
Zeev
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