dragonfly license

George Georgalis george at galis.org
Sat Oct 2 10:07:29 PDT 2004


On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:44:02PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> > A three clause license runs a whole 25 lines.  If that's too much,
>> > consider a derivative of the ISC license which runs all of 13 lines.
>> 
>> for short code which doesn't have much in the way of intellectual property 
>> you care about, "the author of this code, ted unangst, places it in the 
>> public domain." is extra short.
>
>Or PHK's favourite, The Beer-ware license:
>"THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
><phk at xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote this file.  As long as you retain this notice you
>can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
>this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.   Poul-Henning Kamp
>
>from libc/stdlib/malloc.c

That is a good one. ;-) I have yet to understand the "AS IS" AND THE
AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES... stuff. I mean, sure it's copyrighted
but how could suitability or quality be construed from that?

// George


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