[License-discuss] Short permissive no attribution required open source license

[Sagar]

Thanks!

Do you think the community will be interested in a shorter license?
Something that can be stamped on to each source file.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Fleming <kevin+osi at kpfleming.us>
wrote:

> The zlib license is OSI-approved and does not require attribution:
>
> http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Sagar <sagar.writeme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a short permissive OSI approved license that doesn't require
>> attribution?
>>
>> The popular permissive open source licenses like MIT and BSD require
>> attribution. It would be good to have a license where that is not required.
>> There are many of us who are happy with attribution but don't want to
>> legally enforce it. Here is an example of a popular library using public
>> domain dedication with a fallback license:
>>
>> https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_vorbis.c
>>
>> I propose a public domain dedication with a BSD-style fallback without
>> the attribution requirement:
>>
>> "This software is in the public domain. Where that dedication is not
>> recognized, redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
>> or without modification, are permitted. No warranty for any purpose
>> is expressed or implied."
>>
>> Is the public domain dedication redundant? Will it suffice to just say
>> "redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>> modification, are permitted" ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sagar
>>
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Sagar
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