From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T03:09:15+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI With Ruby

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:21:23AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> My own personal opinion is that most "open source" licenses are junk, with 
> the GPL being one of the worst. I think it's high time someone came up with 
> an open source license that says something like this:
> 
> "This software is copyright 2007 M. Edward Borasky. Here is the source. You 
> can do anything you want with it, but if you hurt someone with it, it's 
> your fault and not mine. If you make any money with it, it's your money and 
> not mine. If you do something with it that makes you famous, it's your fame 
> and not mine. And I can't prevent you from compiling it and distributing 
> the binaries without distributing the source, so you can do that too."

That's called the BSD licence.