[Toybox] Pending tweak to license text.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 12 22:23:10 PDT 2013
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).
Rob
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