On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps you should use Apache License v. 2.0 with an accomanying > statement that you as copyright owner waive all conditions cited in > section 4. Something like: > > Copyright 2012 by Casey Rodarmor <[email protected]>. > > Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License") > with the additional permission that licensor waives all requirements > in section 4 of that license; you may not use this file except in > compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > > Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software > distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, > WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. > See the License for the specific language governing permissions and > limitations under the License.
That's a really appealing notion, but I think it might not work. The Apache 2.0 license defines "License" as sections 1-9 of the license text, and the section on default licensing of contributions refers to "This License", which then wouldn't include my changes. > Note that you could not thereby speak for subsequent creators of > derivative works based on your work, so they would either choose to also > grant the same waiver concerning their copyrighted interest, or not. Gotcha. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
