On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:37:45PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote: > > I release this software under the MIT license. (No, not the GPL > > license. Mainly because I do not quite understand the GPL license > > myself as I do with the MIT and the BSD types.) > > MIT license is: > > Do whatever you want with this. You can even branch proprietary > software are you are not forced to contribute back neither to me nor to the > community. Just keep my name in the source code. > > > GPL license is: > > You may use this software for anything you like, but I'm forcing you > to keep any derived work under the same kind of freedom. You may make profit > by using or selling this software (or derivates), but if you give a binary > to anyone, you must offer them the source code too.
Ok, thanks everybody. I guess Mikael will stay with MIT then, right? BTW, if its such a nice license, why don't whe have it in /usr/share/common-licenses/ ? Christian
