On 4/24/09, Eeli Kaikkonen <eekai...@mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote: > Quoting DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org>: > > > I like your suggestion. Give that CC are legal licenses, it appears > > that this summary is complete, perhaps drafted by lawyers :0 > > > > The problem with it is that it's too long. I don't want to give a legally > correct statement, only a short and easily understandable statement which > every user would find easy to read and understand. The point is to tell > shortly what they can do: obtain and use it freely for almost any purpose. > AND that distributing is allowed within certain limits. My clause about > distributing is too limited as was pointed out. However, it's not legally > binding and it still tells people that they can distribute. > > The real problem with ANY licence is that people don't read them. Therefore > I want to give something easy and short, maybe in bold font, so that even > some users would understand what the licence is about. > > Anyways, even if we forget the exact wording, the other point was even more > important. Would the frontend developers like to use this kind of statement, > crafted carefully, in all frontends? We don't know yet how our apps will be > received in a long run in the Windows world. Probably they will be taken by > the evil people and sold for big money without source code. If this kind of > statement is in the Windows installer it would spread the knowledge amongst > users.
I'm afraid I wouldn't be convinced that such people are evil. Assume they are ill-informed unless assured otherwise - it's safer. However, if they can't even be bothered to write a new installer that takes out the license statement and are really intending to make lots of money out of it I don't think we have too much to fear. And yes, I do know of all the trouble BibleCS had some years back. Jon _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page