Re: most liberal license
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Hi!
Thanks, for your response:
> > Is there some other "as free as public domain" license? I don't like
> > to reinvent the wheel, but I haven't found one yet.\
>
> I ususally recommend and use the MIT-Licence for that, it essentially
> says the same stuff as yours, is the shortest of all on opensource.org,
> and is well known and widely used.
Yes, I know the MIT-License and it is the option if there are any
objections against my draft.
However there are some things I dislike about the MIT-License:
* You are forced to include the original copyright notice, in
whatever "substantial portions of the Software" are.
* Even worse, you are required to include the permission notice, thus
it is half way towards copyleft. (I.e. it doesn't affect other
software, but still you can't sell it in a proprietary way.)
* It is an enumerate style license, which means that
- you might forget something
- it is water on the mills of those who write wired legal text saying
you might do everything, but afterwards try to define what everything is.
- it is based upon US copyright law and the rights enumerated therein,
but there might exist other juristdictions with additional/other rights.
Ideally I would put my software in the public domain, but I've been told,
that this isn't possible in all jurisdictions (I don't even know about
my own), so I thought to circumwent this by licensing it to give the
same rights *as* public domain.
Harald
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