>>>>> "Alex" == Alex K Angelopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Alex> Well, for all the good that reading license documents usually does,
Alex> thinking of doughnuts is A Good Thing.

I don't know if it's a Good Thing, but that is a typical response for
non-lawyer types, myself included. :)

Alex> My usual approach to licenses for source code is a variation on FUD.  If
Alex> it says "GNU", I do whatever I want and just make sure that I
Alex> redistribute the complete modified source if I'm redistributing the
Alex> application.  If it says anything else, I try to avoid it.

That's unfortunate, because there's a lot of good stuff out there distributed
under non-GPL licenses that you might be missing out on...

For anyone looking for non-lawyer-speak comparisions or details of the various
OpenSource licenses, here's a few links:

   http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html
   http://yoyo.org/~pgl/lqr/
   http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html
   http://opensource.org/licenses/

Chuck

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Charles K. Hines   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc   (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/)

         "You tell him and I will smack you.  I will smack you like a
            bad bad donkey, okay!" - Pepe in 'Muppets From Space'
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