For Approval: The Azure License
Kenneth Ballenegger
seoxys at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 23:00:32 UTC 2009
Hi,
I'd like to submit the Azure License for review. I am the author of
the license, and wanted you to review it and make sure it abides by
open-source standards.
This license is being used by all my current and (mostly) future open-
source projects, as well as any third-party that wishes to use it.
I come from the world of Mac and iPhone software development, and I
release code to be used mainly in commercial, closed-source software,
as is common in this field.
I have previously been using either the BSD or MIT license, sometimes
not even bothering with a license at all. But they do not satisfy me
fully:
I need a short human-readable license which would be similar to the
MIT, with a major differences:
It would require attribution in an appropriate place to be read by
interested users of any derivative work (typically a closed-source
app), such as the documentation, credits document or about box. (For
example, a “Contains code by Kenneth Ballenegger” or “Special thanks
to Kenneth Ballenegger” in the about box is what I'm looking for.)
It also includes a no-endorsment clause similar to BSD's.
The Azure License in plain text:
http://dl.azuretalon.com/azure_license.txt
Best,
Kenneth
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Kenneth Ballenegger
kenneth.ballenegger.com
kenneth at ballenegger.com
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