From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-09T10:46:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24727] Re: license terms (Re:  Re: kill rdtool?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:24682] Re: license terms (Re:  Re: kill rdtool?)"
    on 01/11/09, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|I sometimes feel I don't need some terms in BSD license.
|I prefer L. Peter Deutsch's terms found in the LEGAL file.

For your information, here's the his terms:

    Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Aladdin Enterprises.  All rights reserved.

    This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
    warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
    arising from the use of this software.

    Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
    including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
    freely, subject to the following restrictions:

    1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
       claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
       in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
       appreciated but is not required.
    2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
       misrepresented as being the original software.
    3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

    L. Peter Deutsch
    ghost@aladdin.com

The obstacles for license change are:

  * I have to ensure whether the terms are OSI compatible, especially
    compatible with GPL.  IANAL.  For your note, the current terms in
    REAME is *not* GPL compatible unless they are dual licensed with GPL.

  * I have to get consent from other copyright holders.

And to maximize the effectiveness, I'd better remove LGPL'ed code from
Ruby.  That is regex.[ch].

							matz.
p.s.

Here's the terms from inside of my heart:

    Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
    including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
    freely, subject to the following restrictions:

    1. DO NOT SUE ME.
    2. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT SUING ME.

I know it's virtually nothing though.