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Re: Which license for a documentation?



On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:53:29AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote:
> > Related, is the following licence DFSG-free:
> > 
> > "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work. Please ask me to
> > link to mirrors. Please link to this site and credit the contributors.
> > No warranty offered and no liability accepted."
> 
> "Please link to this site" seems non-free to me.  What if you are making

"Please" sounds like a request, not a requirement; requests never make a
license non-free.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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