Re: Short copyright notice in script file

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

Alexander Block wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote:
> > There's no clear permission to distribute in any way, so it's not
> > great.  I believe we're unlikely to get sued for it, but it would be
> > better if Matt Johnston had used a widely-known licence instead of
> > that.  Best course of action is to request relicensing.
> [snip]
> thanks for the response. I asked Matt about changing the copyright
> notice and he changed it to the following:
>
> # (c) 2004 Matt Johnston <matt @ ucc asn au>
> # This code may be freely used, distributed, relicensed, and modified for 
> any
> # purpose.
>
> Does that sound ok for Debian?

It is still not a great license, but the reference to distributing helps,
and I belive the word relicense implicitly grants rights to create 
derivitives, (since there are no restirctions placed on the new license the 
new license can allow derivitives.)

If the version distributed is modified, you should extend the notice to 
declare what license you choose to relicense it under. The Expat license is 
a good choice.

IANAL, IANADD.