[Toybox] Pending tweak to license text.

[David Seikel]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:23:10 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> 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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