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From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: License survey
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:17:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120219121750.GA15739@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120219041242.GR146@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:12:42PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> Which is more important, copyleft or widespread usage of musl?

The latter, unless you intend to make money selling commercial licenses
(this would be a reason to have the publicly released musl copylefted).

> What would be your ideal license to see musl under?

Cut-down BSD, to the point of being copyright-only with no restrictions
at all - but using the same wording as the BSD licenses do for the
remaining portion of it.  That is:

<Copyright statements here>

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted.

<Warranty disclaimer here>

To me, this looks more obviously compatible with other Open Source
licenses than the usual N-clause BSD licenses are.  (Disclaimer: I am
not a lawyer.)

Alexander


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-19 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-19  4:12 Rich Felker
2012-02-19  7:00 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-02-19 14:31   ` gs
2012-02-19  7:27 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-02-19 11:55   ` Hiltjo Posthuma
2012-02-19 12:17 ` Solar Designer [this message]
2012-02-19 13:55 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-02-19 15:48   ` Solar Designer
2012-02-19 16:18     ` Rich Felker
2012-02-19 17:08       ` Solar Designer
2012-02-19 22:25       ` Kurt H Maier
2012-02-19 22:51         ` Rich Felker
2012-02-20  0:55           ` Kurt H Maier
2012-02-22 17:51       ` Isaac Dunham
2012-02-22 23:20         ` Rich Felker
2012-02-19 14:01 ` Luka Marčetić
2012-02-19 16:03 ` aep
2012-02-19 16:28   ` Solar Designer
2012-02-21 15:42 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-02-21 16:59   ` Bobby Bingham
2012-02-21 17:16     ` Rich Felker
2012-02-21 21:22       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-02-21 18:31 ` Nathan McSween

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