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.
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Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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