Around 03/13/2013 07:23 AM, Rob Landley scribbled: > 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).
I'm OK with the change. -- Georgi Chorbadzhiyski http://georgi.unixsol.org/ _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
