Harald Geyer wrote: >Joachim Breitner wrote: >>Harald Geyer wrote: >>>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. True. > * 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.) You must include it; that does not mean it must actually be the license used on the software. It can simply be a note about the original. This requirement is primarily for reasons of credit, I believe. > * 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. First of all, I believe your impression of the MIT license is not accurate. Nevertheless, if you really want to release public domain software, while still dealing with strange jurisdictions in which such a thing does not exist, then I suggest reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00235.html , in particular the part starting with "I refuse to assert copyright in this modification.". - Josh Triplett
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