Hi,
I have been looking at a piece of software which is under the MIT license.
Its probably good enough to use for debian, but I'd like to know the pros
and cons of the MIT license when compared with GPL or BSD. I guess the
author also would like to know them, maybe he will change to GPL.
Copy of his ("MIT") license below.
Thanks,
Christian
Licenses?
I release this software under the MIT license. (No, not the GPL
license. Mainly because I do not quite understand the GPL license
myself as I do with the MIT and the BSD types.)
The license conditions are reproduced in the file LICENSE, which
should be included in every distribution of this software.
LICENSE:
Copyright (c) 2000 Mikael Johansson
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 NOT 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.
