Eiffel Forum License

[David Johnson]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:

> Your license has no copyleft provision. Why?

I can't answer for Eiffel, but I use the new BSD license, which is
quite similar, so I can give my own perspective as to why no copyleft.
My opinion only.

I want to share my software with anyone who wants it. This is voluntary
on my part, and on the part of the user. I don't want strings attached.
I want to give my users a set of permissions. I don't want to give them
a set of restrictions. Since my code is free, it is impossible for
anyone to "steal" it. The exact bits that I have produced are wholly
unaffected by someone else's modifications to it.

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David Johnson...
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