Please add optional MIT/BSD license
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First of all great project! Looks mighty helpful.
However there are certain countries that do not recognize/permit the public domain.
In Germany (and some other countries) public domain is not possible as one cannot legally deny his/her copyright of a work (only by dying and then waiting 70 years ;) ).
As such, while your intentions are prestine, releasing your code into the public domain makes it unusable for some. Oh the irony.
So it would be nice if you could add something like this:
"In jurisdictions where a dedication to public domain is not possible the MIT (and/or BSD, Apache, whatever) applies."
Hahaha believe it or not I was just googling this out of curiosity. Licenses are tricky, and I understand some people need to be sensitive to them.
Does this work (I hereby affirm you're not my lawyer, etc.)?
*unlicense goes here*
In jurisdictions where a dedication to public domain is not possible, the following applies:
Copyright (C) 2012 Peyton Randolph
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
As I understand it, the MIT license must be included in source distributions but not binaries. Is this correct? I don't want to be an item in somebody's "Legal" section.
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On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:03 PM, regexident wrote:
First of all great project! Looks mighty helpful.
However there are certain countries that do not recognize/permit the public domain.
In Germany (and some other countries) public domain is not possible as one cannot legally deny his/her copyright of a work (only by dying and then waiting 70 years ;) ).
As such, while your intentions are prestine, releasing your code into the public domain makes it unusable for some. Oh the irony.So it would be nice if you could add something like this:
"In jurisdictions where a dedication to public domain is not possible the MIT (and/or BSD, Apache, whatever) applies."
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As I am no lawyer at all I can just assume that this should be fine with certain jurisdictions.
As for this MIT license I think you're correct, but again I'm no lawyer. :P
Either way, thanks for the quick response!
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll fix and close this when I can.
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On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:21 PM, regexident
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As I am no lawyer at all I can just assume that this should be fine with certain jurisdictions.
As for this MIT license I think you're correct, but again I'm no lawyer. :PEither way, thanks for the quick response!
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