Re: Ann: UnZip-Ada v.20

[Poul-Erik Andreasen <poulerik@pea.dk>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote:
>> Gautier wrote:
> 
>>> UnZip-Ada is free software.
> 
>> But your licence is absolute useless not to say flawed:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> If you want your libery to be used in any larger scale i recomend
>> you to use one of the well-known licences as BSD or GPL or LGPL. BSD
>> or LGPL will probley give you the most user since a pure GPL will
>> restrict the use to ather GPL-programs.
> 
> My assumption is that Gautier's intent is something similar to the BSD
> or Beer-Ware licenses [1], but you are correct that the permission
> should be "use and distribute" instead of just "use", to make the
> software FLOSS and not just free in monetary terms.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jacob
> 
> [1] Close to the end of <http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/>.

The Beerware-licence is also my favorite. Unfortunaly it is not
very well-known, maybe wee should advocate more for it :-)

Remind me of this one.

The special GPL'kind of free speach:

One industrial tycoon to another, while introducing his protege:
Tycoon A: "I have granted this young man completely freedom to speach".
Tycoon B: "Why on earth have you done that".
Tycoon A: "He thinks the same way as i do".


Poul-Erik Andreasen