From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/572 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Neukirchen Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: License survey Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:55:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkcfc4hz.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20120219041242.GR146@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329659723 19222 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2012 13:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-573-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Feb 19 14:55:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rz7EU-0005DA-Aa for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 13746 invoked by uid 550); 19 Feb 2012 13:55:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 13738 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2012 13:55:17 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of chneukirchen@gmail.com designates 10.14.131.74 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.131.74; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of chneukirchen@gmail.com designates 10.14.131.74 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=chneukirchen@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=chneukirchen@gmail.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=Lu5f2WnBKIJkGqNt9uo4914L//lZFgWjMj2b6SZipC8=; b=X+zEv8WRC9WVWCwU38w2mAnOHdasEvoohj4GVih5KOWZ5chRcIzlCdPObKCYAe4ggK GPzoy8+hMXllBQMuswg7cJwelDrxPW7ekc+5n7EyLkLzrDPkbO0JUIn3lc8nypeLXKMK QKSeO+3E6xQo73zlF9zNUFoFTK1kfU1HjKUgo= In-Reply-To: <20120219041242.GR146@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (Rich Felker's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:12:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:572 Archived-At: Rich Felker writes: > What would be your ideal license to see musl under? I explained my thoughts on licensing (and anti-copyleft) at http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2009/08/why-i-use-the-mit-license.html Main point: > As long as there is a single available copy of free code, its freedom > is kept and can be multiplied at no cost. For code that is worth > anything, it will. Also, please do not reword the BSD license. If you want a minimal version of it, use the ISC license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license (I think having to keep the copyright note is a good idea, too.) -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org