Eiffel Forum License

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Sun Apr 30 18:59:53 UTC 2000


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:
> I understand. Certainly, you, as the copyright holder, may impose as few
> restrictions on users as you desire. Nothing wrong with that. There is
> another issue, however. Copyleft is an attempt by some people who believe in
> "free" software to keep the software free for everyone. Copyleft is one
> effective way to do that, and that is my reason for mentioning it.

Of course!

However, when you asked your question "your license has no copyleft
provision. Why?", it was in reference to a a license worded very much
like the BSD/MIT licenses. The question seemed such a non-sequitur that
I replied giving one possible reason.

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David Johnson...
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