Sometimes with some people's comments (please be pointed to the word "some", I know most of you all) it makes you want to think things. I have shared 3-4 pieces of code so far and no one has ever had any need or reason to download any one of them, including nepali calendar library for Python which I released 7 years ago and then again about 3 years ago, an entire school information management system, etc... Ohhh. I forgot, eBarnamala. I went through all the open source licenses and camparisons done at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open_source_software_licenses, but couldn't find a license that allows one to release code based on other people's needs. So here is one I created that is extremely simple to use. Its called "चिलाउनेले कनाउने".
This license will work very simply with """no restrictions, no find prints, no hidden attached""" in whatever "receiver" does with the code that is released under this license as long as the "receiver" of the code demonstrates a need for the code created by the "provider". The demonstration of the need by the "receiver" has to satisfy the "provider" (Providers, let's not think cash here.). "Provider", upon satisfaction of demonstration of need, releases all rights and responsibilities of the code to the "receiver". Then all problems of the code, all issues of licenses and redistribution of code are passed on to the "receiver", with the "Provider's" copy of the code retained by the "provider" to which the "receiver" has no rights or responsibilities (I need some advise to get these things legally correct!). As you can see this license is pretty open in its heart and feeling and goes perfectly well with the idea that "free is not as free in beer". So applying this to the script for the news summarizer, the way to statisfy me of your need for the code is to come down to Brihaspati Vidyasadan School, located within Balmandir compound, Naxal and take the code from me. If you inform me beforehand you can take the code and any other material that I might have that might be of interest to you on a removable media, without any charges, since you will have incurred some cost to get to Brihaspati. By this, I think I have lived up completely to the spirit of the open source movement. Please correct me if I am wrong. Pravin -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
