From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b18a5a233d3f64b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Poul-Erik Andreasen User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ann: UnZip-Ada v.20 References: <45fa9823$1_4@news.bluewin.ch> <45fabc52$0$192$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <45fad3af$1_6@news.bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: <45fad3af$1_6@news.bluewin.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:28:55 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.11.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse-dk@tele2.com X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1174073336 213.237.11.74 (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:28:56 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:28:56 CET Organization: Tele2 Internet Kunde Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14540 Date: 2007-03-16T20:28:55+01:00 List-Id: 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