On Tuesday 08 July 2003 23:00, you wrote:
> I am not a lawyer, but the license would be something like:

Your best bet would be to get one that some other person (lawyer) has already
made up.

Check out: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php for a list of open
source licenses if that is what you want.

> 1. Copy right holders are not liable for anything bad that happens through
> the use of the software.
>
> 2. The code can be used to support any project, commercial or personal.
>
> 3. Distributions of the source need to include the copyright and license.
>
> 4. And this one I am not sure about, but basically something which states
> that only the copyright holders can sell the product (renderer + libs) a
> product.  I would not want someone to take a free API and sell it as an API
> in other words.

Well the LGPL fits that bill.  It would prevent you from liability, let the
code be used to support any project, force distributions of the source to
have the copyright license, and prevent anyone from selling a modified
version of the base code (unless this modified code is also LGPL and
therefore the source is availible etc).

It is a pretty good license for libraries as it doesn't restrict commecial use
of the libraries but it does restrict commercial modification of the
libraries.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php

I'm sure there are others, but that is a popular one.

Cheers,

Will.

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