On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:26:57PM +0000, M. Drew Streib wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:17:08AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > --*snip*-- > > > You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't > > > try to claim you wrote it. > > > --*snip*-- > > > > That works out to be public domain essentially. It would be nice if software > > developers would be less cavalier with their code. You could actually sue > > him if his software failed to compile. > > Yep, also this one-liner incorrectly says "use" where it should include > copy/modify/redistribute. I think that technically this doesn't even > grant the right to copy, only to "use". The fact that he mentioned code > implies that this includes a source copy license, but we don't know > for sure. The 'license' above is in the code itself, so I would understand with 'use' that I can do anything with it. But I am not a lawyer, otherwise I would not have asked here... > This author should really be contacted and asked to X11 whatever this > was. I will Cc the author now, I hope it's okay for him. Greetings, Oliver -- debian/rules http://zork.net/~nick/srom/
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