Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Copylefting (quasi PD ??) Message-ID: <2942@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 26 Jul 89 23:04:09 GMT Article-I.D.: yunexus.2942 References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <23837@santra.UUCP> <5207@ficc.uu.net> <12344@pur-ee.UUCP> Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 43 In article <12344@pur-ee.UUCP> hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes: > >Anyway, here's what I think we will be doing: a pure PD release with a >credit/modification history which must be maintained, but which carries no >further rights. In other words, people would be free to sell modified >versions of our software... but they must acknowledge the lineage of their >product in some way. I'm not quite sure of the details... but it shouldn't >be anything that would frighten away any potential users. And that's what >this is all about. A Pure PD release would not guarantee that all derivatives or the modified versions carry the credit/modification history. In fact, the only thing it DOES guarantee is that the *original* is ALWAYS PD, and it cannot, in any way, be restricted, as *everyone* has equal rights to the original. I have no comment on Copyleft. I do not use copyleft, and try to avoid anything copylefted. I believe what you probably need is something "QUASI-PD" like released BSD stuff, which grants all rights (as in PD) *except* the right (!) to misrepresent the software in any way, and the right to remove the authorship notice. See Berkeley "Released" sources for a copyright that is probably quite close to what you want. For example: | | Copyright (c) 2000 Midnight-Oil Ltd. | All rights reserved. | | redistribution and use for any purpose whatsoever in source and | binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright no- | tice and this paragraph are retained in all documentation and | source materials, blah blah blah ... | oz -- They are like the Zen students who, Usenet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca when the master points at the moon, ......!uunet!utai!yunexus!oz continue to stare at his finger.... Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] P. da Silva Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976