From: Albert Ng <twinwing@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T04:00:37+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI With Ruby

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Um, how close is the BSD license to this "my code, don't need to quote me,
do whatever you want with it, but it's consequences are all yours" license?

On 3/10/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

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