I forgot the URL! Sorry :/ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
I'll email him about using a standard BSD license. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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