[ Please keep me on cc as I'm not subscribed ] Hi!
Thanks, for your response: > > Is there some other "as free as public domain" license? I don't like > > to reinvent the wheel, but I haven't found one yet.\ > > I ususally recommend and use the MIT-Licence for that, it essentially > says the same stuff as yours, is the shortest of all on opensource.org, > and is well known and widely used. Yes, I know the MIT-License and it is the option if there are any objections against my draft. However there are some things I dislike about the MIT-License: * You are forced to include the original copyright notice, in whatever "substantial portions of the Software" are. * Even worse, you are required to include the permission notice, thus it is half way towards copyleft. (I.e. it doesn't affect other software, but still you can't sell it in a proprietary way.) * It is an enumerate style license, which means that - you might forget something - it is water on the mills of those who write wired legal text saying you might do everything, but afterwards try to define what everything is. - it is based upon US copyright law and the rights enumerated therein, but there might exist other juristdictions with additional/other rights. Ideally I would put my software in the public domain, but I've been told, that this isn't possible in all jurisdictions (I don't even know about my own), so I thought to circumwent this by licensing it to give the same rights *as* public domain. Harald -- http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0300802/