[way OT] Re: GPL and other licenses (was ANN: XML Marshalling for Objective C on OS X)
[way OT] Re: GPL and other licenses (was ANN: XML Marshalling for Objective C on OS X)
- Subject: [way OT] Re: GPL and other licenses (was ANN: XML Marshalling for Objective C on OS X)
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:39:37 -0500
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 08:54 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
Even the Creative Commons licenses have issues you ought to be aware
of,
however. For example, they would have you, basically, warrant that your
product doesn't infringe someone else's intellectual property rights.
When
I'm releasing stuff for free, I'm not willing to risk warranting
anything --
especially that some Crazy out there isn't going to claim I copied it,
so I
exclude that paragraph.
I think there's been a sort of "license mania" lately. I think it's
unnecessary.
If you're distributing a runtime application and wish to reserve your
rights as the developer, you need a license. You need a license to say,
for example, that the end user can only use his copy of the software on
one computer at a time. That's something you need a license for.
If you're distributing source code, you simply do not need a license.
Period. Either distribute the source for educational purposes and
maintain your copyright over it, or abandon your copyright and release
the source into the public domain. Neither of these requires you to
write or distribute a license. Neither of these places any burden on
the recipient of your work.
--
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http://homepage.mac.com/jharrell
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