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You are not a legislator, your contract/license can not nullify acts of the legislative branch. If something is required by law it is in there, you don't get a
by dfc 11y ago
You are not a legislator, your contract/license can not nullify acts of the legislative branch. If something is required by law it is in there, you don't get a say about it until next election day. I would be very interested to know why you think the ISC license is above the law, do you have any references that say software licenses can nullify legislative acts?
- cm3 11y agoAn open source software license is the wrong place to include what's current law in one or more jurisdictions. As I said, it's the job of a particular court to decide if a license is valid in some specific place. An open source software license is meant for the whole world and therefore should only include the intentions of the author without an encoding of current laws. The software is likely to exist longer than some law that was encoded into a license text. I'm sorry you took my text to mean I'm suggesting a license can void laws. On the contrary I was suggesting it cannot, but English isn't my first language, and I may have failed to be clear. Again, what about the illegality of using a BSD/MIT licensed piece of software if you require GPL/Apache style liability?