Josh Triplett wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: >> 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." > > "Please link to this site" seems non-free to me. But it's a request, not a requirement. :-)
> What if you are making > a copy in a medium which does not support links? What if the copy will > be behind a restrictive firewall that doesn't allow access to external > websites? What if your site goes down, or is replaced by something > people don't want to link to? Also, if you copied the software from a > mirror, does "this site" refer to the original or a mirror? > > If by "Please ask me to link to mirrors." you mean "If you want me to > put a link to your mirror on my site, ask.", then that clause is fine, > but really shouldn't be part of the license. Technically, the actual license is: "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work." The rest is not part of the license grant. > It is not related to > copying the work; it just provides information about how to get your > mirror listed on the official site. > >> ? Also, does it seem legally useful? > > Depends, what are you trying to achieve? > > - Josh Triplett -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
