Follow-up Comment #29, task #7015 (project administration): Hi,
Here's what I can find: - the use of brackets in "[use, copy, modify and distribute, including the right to grant others rights to distribute at any tier, this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty]" was considered pretty weird. - "without fee or royalty" may need that it is not possible to redistribute the work in a commercial manner (for example, by charging for the media support (CD-ROM, USB key, etc.)) - "including modifications that you make for internal use": the GNU GPL makes no statement about internal use, so I don't know if that can be considered a restriction from the GNU GPL - "Title to copyright in this software and any associated documentation shall at all times remain with M.I.T.": what does "with M.I.T." mean? Can this mean that copyright needs to be assigned to MIT? That's basically what I can tell myself from reading the license, I wasn't given much detail from licensing@ besides the use of brackets. So of course, IANAL, I'm not an attorney, and this is not legal advice :) I agree that this is probably wording details, but unfortunatly that would matter in court. So I would suggest using one of the existing licenses compatible with the GNU GPL, verbatim. The license sometimes refered to as "MIT license" (Expat and X11 at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html) would be nice, and of course the current W3C's Software Notice and License would fit too (note that none of the licenses versions mentioned in the W3C page match Eric's). -- Sylvain _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7015> _______________________________________________ Message posté via/par Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
