Re: One-line licence statement

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Franck Joncourt <franck.mail@dthconnex.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:57:58PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > A 2-line version that seems good is the one Joey Hess uses for the
> > parts of ikiwiki that get copied into users' wikis, among other
> > things:
> > 
> > <http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blob;f=debian/copyright>
> >     Redistribution and use in source and compiled forms, with or without
> >     modification, are permitted under any circumstances. No warranty.
> > 
> > It's shorter than the canonical version of the WTFPL, and seems to
> > cover all the necessary things for a permissive free software
> > license:
> > 
> > * allows unmodified and modified copying
> > * allows binary distributions
> > * explicitly disclaims warranty (quite important in some
> > jurisdictions, I hear)

My one quibble is that the “No warranty” is open to misinterpretation.
(I usually make it a complete declarative sentence: “No warranty
expressed or implied.”) But not very much, so it's a minor quibble, and
I wouldn't reject any software on that basis.

> Upstream took a look at it and is going to adpot this one.
>
> Many thanks for your help.

Yes, thanks for presenting that license text; I agree that it's superior
to WTFPL, and worth suggesting for these use cases.

Does it have a snappy name that we can use to refer to it?

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