On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Michael Widenius <monty@askmonty.org> wrote:
Henrik> I then of course have not had time to write the intro. (I don't mind Henrik> if someone else does it, as long as the legal text is as above, minus Henrik> the last paragraph.)
I would however like to know what problems the lawyer had with my paragraph.
If you mean... a) your original promise text: "Monty Program Ab agrees that when it dual licenses code, it will not restrict the way the third party licensee uses the licensed copy of the code nor restrict how they use their own code. " ...the lawyer never saw it. It was my "devils advocate reading" of it that made me think someone could say we cannot distribute MariaDB as GPL (since it has restrictions :-) b) in the new text, the last paragraph "As a special note, it is observed that the Monty Program Ab Contributor Agreement itself fulfills these requirements. Also note that this promise does not not extend as a requirement to 3rd parties so as to restrict their rights to license products containing contributions." ...the lawyer is fine with it, but nobody understands it. It also doesn't really add anything of legal significance, so it can be taken away. It was intended to be informational, but apparently the effect is the opposite! A short non-legal introduction is clearly the way to go. If I only didn't need to sleep at nights, I would have written it already... henrik -- email: henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi tel: +358-40-5697354 www: www.avoinelama.fi/~hingo book: www.openlife.cc