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On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 00:46 -0500, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> > > Ha! Would the giftware license possibly be a little too open? That
> > > would be tragically ironic.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I wasn't really sure.. but two replies I got say it is ok. Here are
> > the links, since their web-interface actually is worse than the SF one
> >
> I read the MIT license, and I think we ought to just officially brand
> Allegro as under the MIT license. It's a more professional sounding
> (for whatever that's worth) version of "giftware" and adds more
> credibility to open-source communities.
>
I agree. I remember several cases where someone was confused about
Allegro's license.
> The page http://alleg.sourceforge.net/license.html wouldn't even have
> to be changed much. The first sentence could simply read: "Allegro is
> provided under the MIT license." With MIT being a link to the MIT
> license. The rest could be the same.
>
Yes, sounds like the best idea - the second part of the "giftware" text
is voluntarily anyway, so isn't a license - but should of course stay to
encourage users to follow it.
> Not that I really care either way, but I see no harm in giving it a
> recognized license that does not impose any limitations on use. Just a
> thought.
>
What do others think? This really isn't important, but having a proper
recognized license sure is no harm. I attached a docs patch, which would
be applied together with adding a license.txt to CVS containing just the
MIT wording, and updating the web.
--
Elias Pschernig
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@heading
Copyright
- Allegro is gift-ware. It was created by a number of people working in
- cooperation, and is given to you freely as a gift. You may use, modify,
- redistribute, and generally hack it about in any way you like, and you do
- not have to give us anything in return. However, if you like this product
- you are encouraged to thank us by making a return gift to the Allegro
- community. This could be by writing an add-on package, providing a useful
- bug report, making an improvement to the library, or perhaps just
- releasing the sources of your program so that other people can learn from
- them. If you redistribute parts of this code or make a game using it, it
- would be nice if you mentioned Allegro somewhere in the credits, but you
- are not required to do this. We trust you not to abuse our generosity.
+ Allegro is licensed under the MIT license, a copy of which you can find
+ in the file license.txt.
+
+ The MIT license means you may use, modify, redistribute, and generally
+ hack Allegro about in any way you like, and you do not have to give us
+ anything in return. However, if you like this product you are encouraged
+ to thank us by making a return gift to the Allegro community. This could
+ be by writing an add-on package, providing a useful bug report, making
+ an improvement to the library, or perhaps just releasing the sources of
+ your program so that other people can learn from them. If you
+ redistribute parts of this code or make a game using it, it would be
+ nice if you mentioned Allegro somewhere in the credits, but you are not
+ required to do this. We trust you not to abuse our generosity.