Yeah, I'm surprised too. I only gave a one word response of my favourite license, but damn! Everyone else flourished with good information!
It's nice when something little like this sparks a discussion Anyways, I like zlib because it gives great freedoms for the consumers but makes sure that people can't claim they wrote the original software. It encourages a thank you for people who use your product but does not enforce it. Also it's really short so people *actually* might read it! Cheers! Isak Andersson Dave Everitt <dever...@innotts.co.uk> skrev: This is all interesting stuff - never knew the Camping community had a licensing information stream. I gave a talk that included the basics (A tiny history of Stallman, FOSS and the Open Source 'split') to students a few years back. If I ever do it again, this'll make me revisit the slides... - DaveE > Just wanted to mention that not everything is so peachy in the > "public domain". > > Some jurisdictions do not recognize the right of an author to dedicate > a work to the public domain; and there is no single legal definition > for what is the "public domain" that every jurisdiction agrees on. > Most jurisdictions are in fact copyright-by-default (one of the > reasons why we need to be explicit in our projects). > > SQLite is an oft-quoted example of software in the public domain, but > they are constantly reminded of legal issues because of their choice: > > http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html > > http://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@sqlite.org/msg24372.html > > A more recent example is when Unlicense.org came under fire, because > it would not be considered by the OSI: > > http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-January/000052.html > > I don't mean to derail this thread, just wanted to voice my opinion > that not everything is so black-and-white. > > "There's a worldwide default-copyright regime, opting out of it is > simply problematic, and attempts to do so risk creating > non-deterministic effects that depend on the jurisdiction and judge. > And that's the pity of it: Using a very simple standard permissive > licence such as MIT/X11 License or even a peculiar and cramped but > somewhat standard 3-line licence like Fair Licence achieves everything > Bendiken and others want (_and_ actually escape warranty liability) > except for the ideological point about getting 'out of the copyright > game'." -- Chad Perrin > > Cheers, > Norbert >_____________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list _____________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list _____________________________________________ Unlimited TV & Full Length Movies Online. No extra fees. Free Trial. http://click.lavabit.com/4qbucuu8xmna5ytg9ptgoct3b9pz4ikttr6iky66jaaotguqz9ny/ _____________________________________________
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