[Toybox] Pending tweak to license text.

[Georgi Chorbadzhiyski]

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/

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