For Approval: Allegro giftware license

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Elias,

I don't know if the license is well-formed, but I certainly don't see 
anything here that would violate the OSD.

> Allegro is gift-ware. It was created by a number of people working in
> cooperation, and is given to you freely as a gift. You may use, modify,
> redistribute, and generally hack it about in any way you like, and you
> do not have to give us anything in return.

I don't know if the OSI would consider it worth their time to approve 
something like this, but that's a procedural issue, not a legal one.

-- Ernie P.
IANAL, TINLA

On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:03 AM, Elias Pschernig wrote:
>
> Plain Text version of the license:
> "
> The giftware license
>
> Allegro is gift-ware. It was created by a number of people working in
> cooperation, and is given to you freely as a gift. You may use, modify,
> redistribute, and generally hack it about in any way you like, and you
> do not have to give us anything in return.
>
> However, if you like this product you are encouraged to thank us by
> making a return gift to the Allegro community. This could be by writing
> an add-on package, providing a useful bug report, making an improvement
> to the library, or perhaps just releasing the sources of your program 
> so
> that other people can learn from them. If you redistribute parts of 
> this
> code or make a game using it, it would be nice if you mentioned Allegro
> somewhere in the credits, but you are not required to do this. We trust
> you not to abuse our generosity.
>
> By Shawn Hargreaves, 18 October 1998.