From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T10:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Licensing Question


Le 27/5/2005, "Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com> a �crit:
>What would I look for if all we wanted to do was to force people to pass
>around the copyright author/ownership with the code, but they use the
>code for whatever purposes?

Old-school BSD licence. This is my variant:

== Authors
<name> <<email>>


== Copyright
Copyright (c) <year> <name>, all rights reserved.


== Licence
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions, the following disclaimer and
  attribution to the original authors.

- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions, the following disclaimer and
  attribution to the original authors in the documentation and/or
  other materials provided with the distribution.

- The names of the authors may not be used to endorse or promote
  products derived from this software without specific prior
  written permission.


== Disclaimer
This software is provided "as is" and without any express or
implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Authors are not responsible for any damages, direct or indirect.

>Thanks again,
>
>Zach

E

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