Re: Ann: UnZip-Ada v.20

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

Gautier wrote:
> 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 ? ;-)

My deepest apologise :-)

>> 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 

No. Not in copyright issues. Sorry i would like that to.


? 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).

I kind of like that idea. if we comprees it iven more maybee wee could
make it dissapear completely :-)

> Cheers!
> Gautier

Cheers


Poul-Erik Andreasen