Alec Story <[email protected]> writes: >Andrew Myers, a CS prof at Cornell, has this nifty online voting >system set up that's reasonably secure, and does ranked voting. We're >[Cornell SFC] using it to generate our voting preferences. It's >pretty easy to use, you might like it if you don't like selectricity. >It doesn't say so on the website, but if you download the source it's >under (essentially) a BSD license: > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this > software and its documentation for any purpose and without > fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright > notice appear in all copies and that both the copyright > notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer > appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of > the authors or their employers not be used in advertising or > publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without > specific, written prior permission. > >However, they clearly don't have selectricity's graphic design >department. > >Supposedly, in the future they'll be putting out a new version with >some interesting cryptography properties, although right now it's just >email or IP address based (either-or).
Thanks for the pointer! It sounds like you might know them... Do you think you could persuade them to just use the standard (modern, 2-clause) BSD license for future releases? Everything gets so much easier with standard licenses. Also, did you mean for there to be a URL to the site in your mail? I didn't see one; maybe I missed something though. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
