Simple Public License, draft

[John Cowan]

Justin Wells scripsit:
> 
> 
> The idea of first paragraph is from the Mozilla license (including the
> use of the word "cure"), and the second one is practically straight
> out of the GPL.
> 
> Can you explain the problem?
> 
> As for the right of sale, I'm happy to add that. The basic rights
> section now reads:
> 
>     The right to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, display,
>     perform, and sublicense the software, and to charge a fee
>     for any of these purposes.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:04:48PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Justin Wells scripsit:
> > 
> > >   Our software is our property, and it is copyrighted and licensed,
> > >   not sold. You have no rights to our software, except for those
> > >   provided by this license. If you breach the terms of this license,
> > >   and fail to cure the breach within thirty (30) days of becoming
> > >   aware of it, then you must cease all use of our software, as your
> > >   rights to use it are then terminated.
> > > 
> > >   You are not required to accept this license, since you have not
> > >   signed it. However, nothing else permits you to use our software.
> > 
> > Any license with this provision in it just can't be Open Source.
> > In particular, the "basic rights" enumerated below exclude the
> > right of sale guaranteed by the OSD.
> > See http://www.opensource.org/osd.html#clause1 .
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
> >        I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
> 


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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin