On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:

> > than the license is very badly engineered. It enforces discipline
> > by rather brute methods that will only hurt people who would like
> > to help and leaves too many important points wide open.
> > I have proposed alternatives to Wolfgang, something like this:
> > 
> > << you are allowed to do anything with this code as long as
> >     - you accept this copyright
> >     - you leave this copyright message intact and don't
> >       place any additional restrictions on the code
> >     - you don't sell this source or anything derived from
> >       this source, including binaries
> >     - you don't branch the code.
> >    licensing for commercial purposes is available under
> >    following conditions:
> >     ...........
> >     ...........
> > >>
> Forgetting, of course: you may not distribute the binaries. But then, 
> of course, this isn't to your liking any more, is it?

even if you include this restriction it would be an
improvement. But what was your reasoning that you 
desperately need this restriction again?
( ..since you have asked me not to refer to private email)

Richard

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