A Digression about Well-Written Licenses
The first open source licenses, the BSD and GPL, were written almost fifteen years ago. That was the time of UNIX. We used slow-speed modem data connections back then, before the high-speed Internet was available worldwide. Personal computers were much more primitive beasts.
Just as these fifteen years have witnessed improvements in software, so too have they produced improvements to software licenses. Attorneys are no longer struggling with unknown concepts when dealing with open source, and so, as the licenses described in this book demonstrate, competent attorneys are writing very good open source licenses.
The CPL is a very good one because it precisely describes a reasonable reciprocal bargain that ...
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