Good point David. Anyway, for the rest of the list, I've come up with the following text; hopefully it is legally possible:
Copyleft (C) 2009 by Jonathan Yu <[email protected]>. All rights reversed. ABSTRACT I, the copyright holder of this package, hereby release the entire contents therein into the public domain. This applies worldwide, to the extent that it is permissible by law. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. RATIONALE As the author / copyright holder / intellectual property owner, I want this codebase to be as free (both as in freedom and free beer) as possible in your legal jurisdiction. This software and the code contained herein is (to the best of my knowledge) completely unencumbered by patents, copyright, licensing restrictions, etc. Some legal departments of commercial entities may be uncomfortable with the using software without first obtaining a license from the author directly. If this is the case, then I encourage a representative of your legal department to contact me directly to discuss a token fee being paid in exchange for a license to unrestricted use of the code. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES The software is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software. LICENSING If you are legally required to do so, then you may use this file under, at your option: 1. The MIT/X11 License; or, 2. The BSD License; or, 3. The Perl Artistic License, version 2.0 or later; or, 4. The GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later; or, 5. The Creative Commons CC0 (CC-Zero) License, version 1.0 or later Note that points (3) and (4) roughly coincide with the distribution terms of Perl itself; so if you have considered and accepted the licensing restrictions posed by Perl 5.10, you have accepted suitable terms to use this software. The full texts of all these licenses follow. -- I'm not sure how well this would actually hold up in court, because I don't think many distributions are multi-licensed to this extent :-) I just want to make sure anyone that wants to, can use my software if they so choose, totally unencumbered by legal restrictions. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Anyway, I'm not sure if it's of any value to you however the folks >> > behind the Creative Commons licenses recently released a new "Public >> > Domain Certification" called CC0 (CC-Zero). You can find more >> > information here: http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 >> I will look into this, but the problem with CC licenses is that they >> are not "Perl-approved" - that is, they do not have fields in >> Module::Build's license field > > You mean "not Module::Build-approved". Module::Build is obviously buggy > in this area. > > -- > David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice > > "Cynical" is a word used by the naive to describe the experienced. > George Hills, in uknot >
