Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:40:36PM -0400, Bradley Holt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:33:52PM -0400, Bradley Holt wrote: >>> Besides, I'm not sure what rights one would get with public domain (let's >>> assume US law) that they don't get with the New BSD License - can you >>> identify any?
>> The right to redistribute possibly modified copies of the source code sans >> any attribution to the original author, warranty, or original copyright, of >> course. There are no restrictions on the public domain. > The New BSD License does not require attribution in order to redistribute. > Unless you count including the copyright notice and a copy of the license as > attribution, but that's real stretch - this is a file that's buried in the > source code, it's hardly "attribution". I guess the copyright notice is what I meant by that. You're right, I shouldn't count that as "attribution". In any case, I wasn't thinking of user-visible attribution. > The license includes a disclaimer of warranty (I'm assuming that's what you > meant by warranty) - I'm not sure how that limits anyone's rights, it only > protects the copyright holder from liability (unless you're referring to the > right to sue the original author). I'm just saying that being forced to include that notice in modified versions is something of a burden (albeit a minor one). It's something that you are required to do as a developer if you distribute the source. > Can you identify a more tangible right that one gets under public domain that > one does not get under the New BSD License? No. The only difference as far as I know is that you are under obligation to retain the notices. This is a minor pain if you are trying to integrate code into a larger code base. -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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