The Simple Permissive License, v0.1

Mahesh T Pai paivakil at yahoo.co.in
Sat Feb 9 06:28:38 UTC 2002


> ----- begin text of The Simple Permissive License v0.1 -----
>
> Copyright (c) [YEAR] [AUTHOR NAME]
>
> Permission is hereby granted to any person to use this software in any
way, including to modify it and redistribute it, subject to the following
conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of this software.
>
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
>
> ----- end text of The Simple Permissive License v0.1 -----
>


why not this way:-

Copyright (c) [YEAR] [AUTHOR NAME]
"Everybody is permitted to use, modify and redistribute this software in in
any manner, subject to following

(a) This notice should be included in all such copies and substantial
portions of this software
(b)  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

<-- nothing much, just simplified it further -->


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