On 18/04/2019 17:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I think you may want to consider making jhalfs public domain. No one
can "take it private" as there is nothing compiled to binary.
Everything is either a script or text.
In my opinion, I would like it to be public. But I may not have the
right to decide about that. As a contributor, am I a licensee, an user,
a copyright holder?
What do you do if someone violates the license? Are you ready to go
to court?
Not really, but I think the aim is also to protect authors: if a company
wants to take over the software and to sue authors because they use or
modify it without authorization, it would be a license infringement, so
they can't win the trial (at least it is how I understand it). Also, I
think it is important that any modification is attributed to whoever
makes it. What if somebody adds anonymously to the README that this
software is forbidden to be used by women (or any other category of
people)? This is forbidden by law in many countries, I think, and an
author could be fined for that, while he wouldn't be responsible.
You may also want to consider the MIT License:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/appendices/mit.html
Yeah, I like that, actually. Now, I think Jeremy and/or Gerard have
something to say. Jeremy added the GPLv2 license file.
I'll note that in the US copyright is automatic. You do not have to
register a copyright or even say it is copyrighted. Here is some info:
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
Yet another source of information, somehow contradicting the link given
by Bryan...
Pierre (still puzzled)
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