Stephen! Thanks a lot for your letter. In the past few days I read quite a few different prepared licences, but non seemed to be my 'cup of tea' - GPL too restrictive, and BSD to unrestrictve for my taste... Thus, I sat down and wrote a preliminary licence. After reading your letter I went and checked out the "Artistic Licence" used by perl, and its a pretty exact fit! Thus, from today and on, Beautifier will be distributed under the "Artistic Licence". (and again, if this seems to restrictive for any open-source program that wants to use Beautifier, please contact me...) Sincerely yours, Tal Davidson >-----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Tal Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Jerry Treweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 6:17 PM >Subject: Re: Update: Copyright of Beautifier - a fast, small and FREE >automatic indenter for java source files > > >>>>>>> "Tal" == Tal Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tal> Moreover, ONLY copies and modifications of Beautifier must be >> Tal> under some derivative of its copyright (as stated in the >> Tal> copyright). Software that makes use of Beautifier by calling >> Tal> a Beautifier object from within its code ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT >> Tal> have to be under Beautifier's copyright, it just has to pass >> Tal> a FREE copy of Beautifier to whoever uses the software, so >> Tal> the user can too enjoy Beautifier. >> >>Note that to speak of derived copyright is a non sequitur (sp?). You >>mean a derived licence. Say what you mean and mean what you say >>otherwise you may not have a legal leg to stand on. >> >>BTW, have you considered an alternative to the GPL like the AL or the >>MPL (Artistic Licence from perl and Mozilla Public Licence) rather >>than writing your own? >> >>-- >>Stephen >>--- >>Linux - the Frodo Baggins of Computing. >> >
