On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 17:40 US/Eastern, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>:"reasonable help" is very unclear, and has no time limit on it. Am I compelled to answer emails about it for the rest of eternity?Because of the exponential decay in interest, answering e-mails for 3 years is probably about 80% of the work of answering e-mails for ever.
Some things have a quick decay of interest. Other things --- particularly open-source projects --- don't. Imagine if you were an early Apache hacker and it was under a license like that.
I agree the expression "reasonable help" is very unclear, but I would guess that it would be very hard to successfully sue someone for failing to offer "reasonable help" unless they were being deliberately obstructive, such as obfuscating the source or something like that.
Then how about wording to that effect, that you must not obstruct it or clarifying "reasonable help" to mean distributing usable source, etc.