Re: Ann: UnZip-Ada v.20

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

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/>.
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