Quoting Casey Rodarmor (ca...@rodarmor.com): > I would like to release my work without any restrictions whatsoever.
It appears that many people seek to do this. Unfortunately, since the nearly universal of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (an international copyright treaty) over the course of the 20th Century, copyright title and many of the complications that go with it have automatically arisen at the time of creation of covered works, and cannot be easily dispensed with. > My ideal license would be Apache 2.0, but with the sub-clauses in the > redistribution section removed. I could take those out of Apache 2.0 > and rename it, but I am not a lawyer, and would like to avoid creating > a new license if an existing one will do. Perhaps you should use Apache License v. 2.0 with an accomanying statement that you as copyright owner waive all conditions cited in section 4. Something like: Copyright 2012 by Casey Rodarmor <ca...@rodarmor.com>. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License") with the additional permission that licensor waives all requirements in section 4 of that license; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Note that you could not thereby speak for subsequent creators of derivative works based on your work, so they would either choose to also grant the same waiver concerning their copyrighted interest, or not. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss