Re: possible licensing issues with some scsh source files
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>:
> > ;;; 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return
> > ;;; to the T Project at Yale any improvements or extensions that they make,
> > ;;; so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform
> > ;;; the T Project of noteworthy uses of this software.
>
> Harmless. My best effort consists of waving a gerbil at my workstation
> and hoping something along those lines happens. (If this were an
> actual requirement, rather than a vague request, it would be a
> problem. I strongly discourage people from writing noise like this
> into licenses though - put it in the README where it belongs.)
Why do you think this is a "vague request" rather than an "actual
requirement"? "Users ... agree" sounds like a requirement to me.
The expression "best efforts" is a strong one. It means more than just
"reasonable efforts". I don't think your gerbil waving would even
count as a reasonable effort.
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