Fine.

Matthias, currently with almost no internet :×)



Michael Sweet <m...@easysw.com> schrieb:

>I'm OK with MIT.
>
>On 2013-02-27, at 10:47 PM, Greg Ercolano <e...@seriss.com> wrote:
>
>> Would like to hear from Albrecht, Matt, and Mike on this as well.
>>
>>      Greg: Zlib or MIT with exceptions to relax use and not require
>citations
>>      Ian: Zlib, add exception to relax code use
>>
>> Recommendations of other licenses are fine too.
>>
>> I think all we really want people NOT to do is attempt to declare
>ownership
>> to themselves, then try to leverage others with it, as well as
>including a
>> "limited warranty" and "liability waiver".
>>
>> As an example of usurping ownership, say someone at Company A uses
>some
>> of our example code, then he leaves the company. Years later, Company
>A
>> thinks our examples were taken from their code (due to the
>similarity)
>> and attempt to take us, or others to task about it.
>>
>> I did some research trying to figure out what license books use for
>their
>> examples, but couldn't find much.
>>
>> O'Reilly has the following general policy for reuse of code examples
>from his
>> books, but it's not really "a license", it's just a FAQ response from
>Tim O'Reilly:
>> http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html
>>
>> In general, all books have copyright notices at the front, but don't
>generally
>> discuss the use of example code.. the implication is to of course use
>them,
>> and people usually reference the source if they want when
>appropriate, but
>> are certainly not forced.
>>
>> It'd be nice if our example code didn't need paragraphs of license
>prologue,
>> and could just reference a file (eg. README-License.txt) that comes
>with
>> the examples.
>>
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