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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:39:45 +0100
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Hi, I had the same issue when putting a project on SourceForge. My own liberal 
"do what you want but keep the license please" license was not convenient, but 
they directed me towards a similar license, the MIT license:

	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Maybe you'll be happy with it...

Gautier

framefritti@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2:37 pm, Tomek Walkuski <tomek.walku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> someone wrote about need such kind of simple, non-GPL in "The future
>> of Ada is at risk" thread.
>>
> 
> Sorry, this is not an answer to your question, but another (slightly
> OT) question that yours triggered.  I have an old C++ library of mine
> (for computations with rings, fields and algebraic stuff).  Triggered
> by the discussion "future of Ada" I am thinking to rewrite it in Ada
> (ok, maybe symbolic computation is not very important in business
> applications, but there is where my skills live).  I would like to
> make the library available with an open-source licence, but not GPL
> since I understand that the clause that any derivative work must be
> GPLed (maybe I am not precise here, but please do not flame me ;-)
> keeps professional away from GPLed library.
> 
> After such a long introduction my question finally arrives: can you
> suggest any open-source licence which could be used in this case ?
> (and maybe in other Ada libraries to be developed)
> 
> Thanks 16#3E8#
> 
> PS: no flame, please... :-)
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