<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Gervase Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerv@mozilla.org" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=gerv@mozilla.org&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">gerv@mozilla.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 23/04/14 16:59, Buck Golemon wrote:<br>
> and another<br>
> package's license says "modified versions cannot contain additional<br>
> attribution requirements."<br>
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</div>I don't know of any licenses which say that. Can you point me at an example?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I cannot. I don't have broad knowledge of license terms.</div><div><br></div><div>
My question is: Is it possible to have an MIT-like license with no requirements on derivative works?</div><div>(I'm referring to this clause: "<span style="color:rgb(73,73,73);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.671998977661133px">The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in</span></div>
<span style="color:rgb(73,73,73);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.671998977661133px">all copies or substantial portions of the Software.")</span><div><br></div><div>While I don't know whether the MIT requirements cause issues with any OSI or other popular license, it's factual that there is a demand for an absolutely-permissive open-source license, and until there is an OSI-vetted solution, people will continue to use or invent other solutions (think of: sqlite, cc0, unlicense, wtfpl).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The wtfpl, the unlicense and other public domain attributions are crayon licenses, while the cc0 is too complex and not OSI-approved besides, so I come here asking for help in making a simple yet legally sound license which fills this demand.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm trying to follow up on the suggested course of action in these posts:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * <a href="http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-February/000243.html" target="_blank">http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-February/000243.html</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * <a href="http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-January/000047.html" target="_blank">http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-January/000047.html</a></div>
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