On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:23:10 -0500 Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nobody but me is likely to care, but I'd like to simplify the first > paragraph from the current: > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software > for any > purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > above > copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. > > To just say: > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software > for any > purpose with or without fee is hereby granted. > > Reasoning: it was never my intent to require anybody to copy license > text into another project if they cut and pasted something out of > toybox. The "permission for any purpose" is as close to public > domain as you can get in our current screwed up legal system without > making people uncomfortable the _other_ way. (Besides, my initial > reading of that was "all copies of the source code" but that's not > what it says, and somebody pointed out that Android has "show license > text" options because paranoid lawyers think that sort of thing > applies to the BINARY version, which is nuts.) > > I'm not changing it this release, but in case anybody was going to > object I thought I'd post it here for a bit first so I can remove > your code if it really matters to you. This version is still > outgoing-compatible with the old version (code that says the new > thing can give code to a project that says the old thing, whether it > could receive it depends on how paranoid your lawyers are). Works for me, and I do care. Now all I have to do is actually get something into toybox so that my level of care actually means something. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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