[dundee] Interesting Licence
Robert Ladyman
it at file-away.co.uk
Sun Jan 19 09:51:28 UTC 2014
I like Matt Diamond's licence for his NSFW-named project (see
https://github.com/mattdiamond). The third paragraph reminds me of our
experiences with a certain RMS...
"Copyright (C) 2012, Matt Diamond
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, pulverize, distribute, synergize,
compost, defenestrate, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
If the Author of the Software (the "Author") needs a place to crash and you
have a sofa available, you should maybe give the Author a break and let him
sleep on your couch.
If you are caught in a dire situation wherein you only have enough time to
save one person out of a group, and the Author is a member of that group, you
must save the Author.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BLAH BLAH BLAH ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW
UPPER-CASE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE THE LICENSE IS ANGRY AND SHOUTING AT YOU."
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Robert Ladyman
File-Away Limited, 30 Church Street, Newtyle
Perthshire, PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND
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