MIT License?

2000-08-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
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 h

Re: MIT License?

2000-08-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:37:45PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote: > > 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.) > > MIT license is: > >

Re: MIT License?

2000-08-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:13:02PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > BTW, if its such a nice license, why don't whe have it in > > /usr/share/common-licenses/ ? > > The population in /usr/shar