Generic Simple License

[Justin Wells]

I'm not sure that such short disclaimers will work. Also, since you do not 
require people to copy the license on to further works, you will get sued
by third parties who had no opportunity to read your disclaimers.

I am not a lawyer... but this seems TOO short.

Also the way you've written it, you forbid people from crediting you, 
which is weird. You just want to stop them from misusing your trademarks,
you don't want to stop them from praising your greatness :-)

Justin



On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:28:22AM -0500, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> The inspiration is the Apache license, with the advertising
> clauses removed.
> 
> Can this be improved?  Can it be made more simple?
> Can it be more generic?
> 
> Forrest J. Cavalier III
> http://www.mibsoftware.com/
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This work is copyrighted by the authors.  You may use and/or
> distribute the work and derivatives through these conditions:
> 
>    You inspect the work, which is provided AS IS, for suitability.
>    THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND ARE NOT LIABLE FOR
>    CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WORK.
> 
>    and
> 
>    You do not misuse author trademarks or other intellectual
>    property.  The appropriate place to attribute our authorship
>    is the source and not in the executable programs or other
>    derivatives you create.