[Gslug-general] liberal licenses

[Harry George]

I think that is a "public domain" statement, though he should have used
that phrase explicitly.    

Any of the OSI-compliant licenses will allow commercial use.   All
require you provide the source code if you pass it along (public
domain doesn't).  Most require attribution (public domain doesn't).

I've released stuff to public domain, but it freaked out potential
users, so my defaults are LGPL for code and "share-alike" (Creative
Commons) for content.


On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:27:50 -0800
Andrew Gray <sweetandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm honestly tempted to make this my official license. Perhaps even  
> verbatim, though I  wouldn't suppose the author or this would care  
> that much about how this text is used if he applies such a liberal  
> approach to his code. And yes, it's hilarious, but it's incredible at 
> 
> the same time. I love it.
> 
> --Andrew
> 
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Mark Foster wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday (at the meeting) I was explaining how the BSD license is  
> > even more liberal than the GPL.
> > Alas, I just ran across this from the netcat(1) man page, pretty  
> > funny...
> >
> > COPYRIGHT
> > Netcat is entirely my own creation, although plenty of other code
> > was used as examples. It is freely given away to the Internet
> > community in the hope that it will be useful, with no restrictions
> > except giving credit where it is due. No GPLs, Berkeley copyrights
> > or any of that nonsense. The author assumes NO responsibility for
> > how anyone uses it. If netcat makes you rich somehow and you___re
> > feeling generous, mail   me a
> > check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network, get
> > a life. Always ski in control. Comments, questions, and patches to
> > hob- bit at avian.org.
> >
> > -- 
> > Realization #2031: That the "meaning of life" is now just another  
> > Google search.
> > Mark D. Foster <mark at foster.cc>  http://mark.foster.cc/ | http:// 
> > conshell.net/
> >
> >
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