CC-BY-ND
Let's take a short look at this.
CC, cool, Creative Commons
BY, You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or
licensor, which is fine in v3, and by proxy, 2.0 and 2.5 due to the 4b
clause
that allows redistribution of derivative works under later versions of the
[Clark C. Evans]
It seems Petter is arguing that he might be able to work around
the copyright law by only translating a small piece at a time and
then assembling the translated pieces.
Since I didn't see any emphatic 'no' to this, and I somewhat recently
got this particular type of case
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
[Ben Finney]
Is that by definition – i.e. that, if a jurisdiction does not behave
that way, you disqualify them from being a “sane jurisdiction”?
Or do you have a set of sane jurisdictions that isn't dependent on
If, on contact, his goal is just wide-openness delivered in an
eccentric license, then I would recommend the WTFPL v2 located at
http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ which basically says you can do anything you
want to with the software. Its an eccentric license that is Debian
compliant, and wide open.
/lurker surfacing
Working on a new project with a collaboration team. They are throwing
around GPLv3, Apache, and zlib.
An argument sprang up, which makes me concerned about DFSG-ness of the GPLv3.
The GPLv3 allows for modifications per the license itself. This is
apparent in statements by
My reading and understanding is that they are basically the same.
From the GPLv2, it states that the copyright holder (author) and
anyone who modifies or redistributes the code cannot be held liable to
you for damages.
From the proposed WTFPLv3, it states You are solely liable for 'what
you do
Would this be better wording?
2. Nobody is liable for what .. you do with it
The WTFPL goes beyond disclaimer to place liability on the licensee.
That's an unusual step, and I'm not convinced that it preserves the
recipient's freedom.
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Since this has sparked some interesting debate over the wording, for reference:
WTFPLv1.0 (2000)
http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/COPYING.WTFPL
WTFPLv1.1 (2010?)
https://www.ohloh.net/licenses/wtfpl_1_1
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/threadmill.git/plain/COPYING.WTFPL
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