fair license

Nick Welch mack at incise.org
Sat Feb 5 21:32:48 UTC 2005


On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:48:13PM -0700, James William Pye wrote:
> (Well, it came about when I was instrument-stamping some code and
> became annoyed when I noticed how much space a BSD license took up.
> Yeah, I swoon at the sight of a GPL. ;)

I know the feeling. :)

> My thoughts on being safe rather than sorry are simply that a user
> should make attempts of notification with a volume that meets or
> exceeds that of the creator's.

Ah, interesting.  Makes sense.  Also avoids the ambiguous requests of
"conspicuous" or "appropriate" notification that the GPL (for example)
has.

> [btw, I've been using 'Use' in my instruments instead of 'Usage'. It's
> shorter. ;]

Is the "DISCLAIMER:" needed? :)

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Nick Welch aka mackstann | mack @ incise.org | http://incise.org



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