Måns Rullgård wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2004-06-04 11:43:45 +0100 Matthieu Delahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> [...] I just want to know if there is a list of >>> common license for documentation that are definitively known to be >>> DFSG >>> free. >> >> I'm not sure about definitive, but generally most DFSG-free licences >> would work for any software and there are benefits from having your >> manuals under the same licence as your program. >> >> Related, is the following licence DFSG-free: >> >> "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work. Please ask me >> to link to mirrors. Please link to this site and credit the >> contributors. No warranty offered and no liability accepted." > > Wordings like "please" don't seem to carry much legal value, so I > suppose it might even be GPL compatible, though I guess some would > frown upon the request for credit.
Nobody here would do so, just so you know. :-) I think this license is actually legally nearly equivalent to giving the work to the public domain. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
