On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:38:13AM +0530, debian developer wrote: > ["bsd vs. GPL"]
Sorry for 'stealing' this thread but I'm not sure if I should make a new thread for this. I'm wondering what OpenBSD people think about BSD (-like) licenses versus public domain. What does the ISC license actually do? It keeps your copyright (so you can change the license later, but I guess you won't), it says: do with it whatever you want, it says: don't blame me for anything. Pulic domain also says "do with it whatever you like". I really don't know about the importance of the disclaimer. Maybe it depends on the country you live in. I'm a minimalist is some respects, and I think you should not put anything in a license file that is not necessary: [quote] ...we favor licenses that are both clear and concise and, most importantly, that don't require a lawyer to interpret. --todd ( http://9fans.net/archive/2003/06/282 ) [/quote] If you put anything in public domain, you'll give up your copyright. So the next person te distribute your software is allowed to remove your name from the credits list. I can imagine this sounds like a problem for some man. But hey, who wrote Qmail? No-one will forget. BTW, how many times is the BSD license in the source repository? I think it is a filthiness of "$ head [sourcefile]". Pieter Verberne
