On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:48:47AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
>On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:20:46PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
>> 
>> I understand why you might want a shorter or less verbose license than the
>> GNU GPL
>
>> It is ILLEGAL, under Copyright law, to
>> misrepresent the authorship of a work, in whole or in part.
>
>> A license explains the terms, pure and simple.
>
>> What may I do with this pile of code?  What may I not?
>
>Do you see problems with the following?
>
># Copyright (c) 2003 Jacob Meuser.  All rights reserved.
># Redistribution and use with or without modification
># are permitted.  This software is provided "as is".
>

Yes; it does not clarify if you're asserting copyright over Joseph's 
quoted text.

-- 
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without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of
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mutually exclusive."                    --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
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