Masahiro Nakagawa and SHOO invited to join Phobos developers

[retard]

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:39:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Seriously, were they *trying* to prevent people from understanding it?
> If so, I don't think they could have done a better job. (At least not
> without hiring the FSF's "Let's do everything we can to enure our
> profession is needed as much as possible" lawyers.)

The rationale behind license text is to make it enforceable. If a lawyer 
cannot protect the author against infringement due to problems in the 
license text, the license is basically useless.

If you have problems reading the text, some authorities such as the 
Creative Commons provide shiny graphical interfaces to the license. Of 
course, I'm sure no one will complain if you release all your work under 
a very liberal license or don't limit the use in any way. It's always a 
pleasure to steal good work. "What's yours is mine, what's mine isn't 
yours" - that's how the communism worked.