Beside being off-topic. And beside SCIM being a well-known opensource projector for IME.
If you're inventing a new license, that's simply wrong. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On 3 November 2014 13:24, Andrés Martinelli <andma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there. Thanks for your time and taking a look at the app. > > About the license, my idea was to start scim with its own license, and keep > it as simple as could be, but keeping in line with the points mentioned in > it. > I believe it will always suit best something particular and written for it, > than something more general, but take in mind that this license can suffer > modifications since this project is just starting! Since SCIM can be > modified and redistributed with other license, such as any other GPL > compatible, I believe is not as restrictive as it seems. > Please, I am interested in hearing what points you dislike or consider are > restrictive. > Thanks! > > 2014-11-03 9:01 GMT-03:00 Matthias Maier <tam...@gentoo.org>: > >> >> Am 03. Nov 2014, 00:24 schrieb Andrés Martinelli <andma...@gmail.com>: >> >> > I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some >> > adds like undo/redo.. >> > you can find it here: >> > >> > https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim >> > >> > Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! >> >> Just out of curiosity. >> >> The original sc program is public domain [1]. >> >> You have chosen to relicense your fork of the codebase under a custom >> license that you labeled "SCIM license". >> >> A quick peek at the license [2] reveals quite a cumbersome number of >> issues (forced contact, contact possibility, redistribution in form of >> tarballs and patches). Such a license usually prevents any meaningful >> number of external contributions and packaging. Not to mention that >> layman's licenses are almost always fundamentally flawed. >> >> Why not using an FSF-approved, OSI-approved, and/or DFSG compatible >> license instead? I'm sure that there is something available that fits >> your taste. (You can e.g. license under "GPL 2 or later" and ask for a >> special (non binding) courtesy to inform you of changes/patches.) >> >> Best, >> Matthias >> >> [1] >> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sc/sc_7.16-3_copyright >> [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim/blob/master/LICENSE >> > > > > -- > Andrés Martinelli
