Re: libreadline
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:09:49AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I think it's a very safe bet that the Regents of the University of
> California abandoned the advertising clause because their lawyers
> decided it was untenable.[2] Huge institutions like that don't loosen
> licensing terms out of charity.
On the other hand, lawyers don't drop clauses just because they are
unenforcible :-)
One possibility is that they thought that defending the advertising clause
might weaken their position on another issue. Maybe they want to be able
to argue against a similar clause in someone else's license.
Or maybe this license change was an actual case of a huge institution doing
something sensible. It does happen.
Richard Braakman
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