On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:31:11PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-05-04, Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, but is the name of the license, or the name + URL enough? > > Anyone can then change the contents of the URL later on. For example: > domain expires, evil scammers grab it and publish a new license at the > same URL requiring payment for commercial use. > > Much safer for users if the license is supplied with the code... > > > Than you > > could replace the whole ISC license with just the line like: > > # This file is ISC-licensed. > > > > This would make one reason for using public domain less; It won't safe > > lines in textfiles. > > If you were talking about the 300+ lines of GPL I'd understand > wanting to reduce it. But 13 lines of ISC license - is that really > a problem?
Alright.. an infinite discussion... Well, the way it's now is also pretty:-)
