Re: Fwd: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Harris writes: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > On 26-Mar-2011, Andrew Harris wrote: > > > As for your suggestion of using a better-tested license, I do not > > > feel that any other license carries the same message as CDL. WTFPL > > > comes close, but offers no

Re: OSI exempt to GPL: advise requested

2011-03-26 Thread Paul Wise
I personally wouldn't trust any single entity with which libraries can be linked. Since you mainly seem to care about OpenSSL why not just use exception people generally use for that: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html Watch out for transitive GPL compliance issues though i

Re: Fwd: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Andrew Harris
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > [replying on-list again after Andrew and I implicitly agree the > discussion can be public] > > On 26-Mar-2011, Andrew Harris wrote: > > > As for your suggestion of using a better-tested license, I do not > > feel that any other license carries

Re: Fwd: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
[replying on-list again after Andrew and I implicitly agree the discussion can be public] On 26-Mar-2011, Andrew Harris wrote: > As for your suggestion of using a better-tested license, I do not > feel that any other license carries the same message as CDL. WTFPL > comes close, but offers nothing

OSI exempt to GPL: advise requested

2011-03-26 Thread Freek Dijkstra
Hi, After bumping into some license incompatibilities (between GPL and OpenSSL) a few years ago, I've been using the BSD license. A recent discussion made me consider the following scheme: GPL license version 3 or higher with the following exemption: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this

Fwd: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Andrew Harris
Whoops, forgot to reply all. Damn GMail. :/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Harris Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM Subject: Re: Chicken Dance License To: MJ Ray On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:59 AM, MJ Ray wrote: > Andrew Harris wrote: > > I am the author of a new Free Sof

Re: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:41:52 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > This seems highly doubtful; license proliferation is not something that > leads to a net increase in happiness. Quite the opposite, in fact. Agreed, fully. > > Please, don't do that; instead, choose an existing well-understood and > w

Re: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Harris wrote: > I am the author of a new Free Software license called the Chicken Dance > License. It is a BSD-based license that offers extra hilarity over most, if > not all, other Free Software licenses. This new legal infrastructure that I > seek to create will result in less hair-pullin

Re: Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
Andrew Harris writes: > I am the author of a new Free Software license called the Chicken > Dance License. It is a BSD-based license that offers extra hilarity > over most, if not all, other Free Software licenses. I can certainly appreciate the desire for more fun and humour in this area. Howev

Chicken Dance License

2011-03-26 Thread Andrew Harris
Hi! I am the author of a new Free Software license called the Chicken Dance License. It is a BSD-based license that offers extra hilarity over most, if not all, other Free Software licenses. This new legal infrastructure that I seek to create will result in less hair-pulling and teeth gnashing, an