[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
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Perthshire, PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND
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