Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 01:18, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: could anyone help me resolve this license question : https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/commit/0b5b6e9964ca That page contains more than one question. If i can tell the author here's a known license that

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is You may not release the Software under a more restrictive license than this one. trying

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is What

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:42:59 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: Well that is a fun license. I think it is attempting to say that the work doesn't qualify to have copyright/patent laws applied to it. IMO it is way too vague to achieve that and cannot override copyright law where copright law

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Felyza Wishbringer
If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you want to with the software. Its an eccentric license that is Debian compliant, and wide open.

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 16:14, Felyza Wishbringer wrote: If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you want to with the software. Its an eccentric

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 17/03/2012 11:14, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org writes: If i can tell the author here's a known license that fits your needs, i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since

On the importance of per-file license information

2012-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: On the importance of per-file license information

2012-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/ Nice one, thank you. I wasn't aware of the Larry Rosen quote: “[O]ur goal is to pass on any important IP information that might be useful … in the place(s) [downstream