From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-01T02:09:44+09:00
Subject: Re: New presentation on Ruby

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:42:33PM +0900, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> On 31 Mar 2007, at 03:52, Gregory Brown wrote:
> >On 3/30/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> >>Alternately if your main concern is attribution for your work, you
> >>might like to use a variant of the Anarchic Ownership License  
> >>(http://
> >>www.toxic-frock.tv/anarchicownershi.html) which whilst probably
> >>flawed does a good job of getting the point across that:
> >>
> >>a. you wrote your stuff;
> >>b. other people can use your stuff;
> >>c. they must credit you for creating it.
> >>
> >>Of course now some clever bugger will point out how flawed it is, and
> >>doubtless several thousand others will use up my server bandwidth for
> >>the month ;)
> >
> >Standard licensing choices are better.  Ellie, is this what you're  
> >looking for?
> >http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> 
> I much prefer my wording ;)

Yours is certainly more amusing -- and easier to grasp.  There are a
couple of potential legal ambiguities in there, but nothing ambiguous
in terms of your intentions, as far as I can see.

Note: IANAL (obviously)

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