On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:58:57 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi,
Hi! :) > > If anyone should dual-license a code, lets say like [BSD+announcement > clause] What do you mean by "announcement clause"?] Do you mean the Obnoxious Advertising Clause (OAC, hereinafter)? See[1] for more information about the OAC. [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html > and [GPL], what should they better put in the header of the > files? Are there examples of something like this in the archive? I did't searched hard in the list archive, but I think we can draft an appropriate permission notice, starting from the Perl one... Copyright (c) [yyyy] [author list] This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "4-clause BSD license" which is quoted below. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License, or the "4-clause BSD license" below for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA The text of the "4-clause BSD license" follows: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. * Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Of course, the usual disclaimers: IANAL, IANADD. Corrections and/or improvements from other debian-legal contributors are welcome! > > Thanks a lot, > Miry You're welcome! > > PS: I'm not subscribed to the list, please CC me :) Done. P.S.: I recommend you against the use of Google Gmail. It's harmful for your own and your correspondents' privacy. See the following links for more details: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001398.php http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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