Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Terry Reedy Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Don't put your software in the public domain Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 15:12:07 -0400 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <574ef865$0$1618$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5751539f$0$1586$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87eg8d4dss.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <87a8j19xb0.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ETTFezuxp5d/a5+cevOTxQMIPqf6N9qYfrapM9u9kPUA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.033 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'confuse': 0.09; 'continental': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:software': 0.09; 'jan': 0.11; 'systems.': 0.11; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'seperate': 0.16; 'subject:domain': 0.16; 'thankfully,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'am,': 0.23; 'fit': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'paul': 0.24; 'sort': 0.25; "i've": 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'least': 0.27; 'url:gov': 0.27; 'involvement': 0.29; 'subject:public': 0.29; 'url:wikipedia': 0.29; 'url:wiki': 0.30; 'code': 0.30; 'certainly': 0.30; 'relative': 0.30; 'common': 0.33; 'that,': 0.34; 'court': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'volume': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'seem': 0.37; 'things': 0.38; 'url:en': 0.39; 'subject:the': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'free,': 0.60; 'us.': 0.62; 'received:96': 0.63; "they're": 0.66; 'legal': 0.66; 'course.': 0.67; 'url:index': 0.67; 'us,': 0.69; 'online': 0.71; 'book.': 0.72; 'training.': 0.72; 'subject:your': 0.75; 'discovered': 0.83; 'online,': 0.83; 'nowadays,': 0.84; 'families': 0.91; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.91; 'subject:Don': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-96-227-207-81.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 In-Reply-To: <87a8j19xb0.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <574ef865$0$1618$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5751539f$0$1586$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87eg8d4dss.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <87a8j19xb0.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:109484 On 6/4/2016 4:24 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Paul Rudin : > >> Don't confuse consideration with agreement - they're seperate legal >> concepts. >> >> Agreement is certainly necessary in pretty much all jurisdictions. >> Consideration is required in most common law jurisdiction (England, >> the US, most of the commonwealth) but not in many continental legal >> systems. > > Thankfully, I live in a jurisdiction where things are simpler. I've > actually successfully represented a relative in a court of law without > any legal training. > > In Finland, it is common for families to have a printed copy of the law > on the bookshelf. How wonderful that 'the law' can fit in a book. English-speaking common law commentaries once had Blackstone's 4 volume Commentaries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone#Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England), but bookshelve of statute laws seem to have overwhelmed that, at least in the US. > Families traditionally sort out things like > inheritances without the involvement of lawyers. Nowadays, the law is > available online, of course. For free, I presume. I just discovered that the Delaware Code is now online http://delcode.delaware.gov/index.shtml. -- Terry Jan Reedy