On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote: >> >> Project homepage: http://bitbucket.org/wilhelmy/lua-bencode/ >> > > Minor remark; you mention "While not a license, all files in this repository > have been placed in the public domain because the authors do not believe in > intellectual property.", and while that may be a true statement, in practice > it creates more problems than necessary. Just stamping it with MIT or > similar provides the least legal hassle for anyone who wants to use your > code.
Well, as far as I know the only kinds of hassles that public domain causes are for those who want explicit legal clearance to use them in proprietary products. Given that their motivation for use of public domain is a statement against intelectual property laws and not mere desire of universal availability, I'd think that public domain is actually closer to their goal than the MIT license. (Speaking as someone who has both GPL and MIT code out there, and who has nothing against those licenses -- much to the contrary.) Of course, it's always good to play nice with the usual customs of the community (I think it's the main reason why most Lua modules are licensed with the same license as Lua, Perl modules with the same license as Perl, etc.) but at the same time there's absolutely no problem in submitting rockspecs to the main repo with other (freely redistributable) licenses, or public domain (Lua team's own lhf tends to use public domain a lot). -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
