Re: Ann: UnZip-Ada v.20

[Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>]

Poul-Erik Andreasen:

> Fine piece of software.

Thank you!

> But your licence is absolute useless not to say flawed:
> 
>  "Permission granted to use this library, without any warranty, for any
>   purpose, provided this copyright note remains attached and modified".

NB: you modified the note there: in the original one, it is written 
"unmodified". Should I call my lawyer ? ;-)

> When you get hold of a pice of software in a legal manner (in this case
> by downloading from your site). You are allways allowed to use it
> in any way you see fit, as long as you dont copy it or puplicise it.
> 
> So this note dosn't grant any new rigths at all to the user. On the 
> conterary you are actualy trying too put limitations on the use (witch 
> you have no legal base to do) by  requiring him to keep the the 
> copyrigth notice, a litle bit odd since you are not granting him rigth 
> to copy :-)

Right, it doesn't grant the right to copy or distribute, but doesn't forbid it 
either. Anyway, isn't it true that everything that is not forbidden is allowed 
? Oh, after re-reading the copyright note, I see with horror that there is no 
explicit mention that Poul-Erik is granted the right to drink a beer after 
reading the note. Should I make a quick modification (Friday evening is 
there...) ?

> 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.

I had always a good echo from users with that copyright note. You can see the 
licence as a CLGPL (C for compressed).
Cheers!
Gautier