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Sometimes it seems like the open source community isn't so open. I
guess legal problems have to plague all forms of kindness and utility.
Thanks for looking into this; I didn't know the tedious nature of
"public domain" :)
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:44:35 +0200, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 00:57 +0200, Michal Molhanec wrote:
> > Ryan Norton wrote:
> > > Right.
> > >
> > > That license sounds pretty good to me, isn't there an OSI one that does
> > > just just this?
> >
> > I'm searching. The complete list of OSI licences is at
> > http://opensource.org/licenses .
> >
> > New version, there was bad wording in the original version:
> > ====================================================
> > The Allegro License
> >
> > Copyright (c) 2004 by authors of Allegro, see AUTHORS file for complete list
> >
> > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person to do
> > whatever he or she wants with any part of the Allegro library
> > (including, but not limited to, source files, documentation and data
> > files) without any restriction, including, but not limited to, to use,
> > copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
> > of the Allegro library.
> >
> > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
> > OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> > MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
> > IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
> > CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
> > TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
> > SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> > ====================================================
> >
>
> In that case.. we could as well keep the current one, I guess. Anyway,
> here's a very detailed reply I got on the opensource.org list:
>
> http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:8720:ncnfkeknbbmhcknnelja
>
> He even posted a (not existing) FAQ entry concerning public domain
> there. And it seems there actually is no OSD license which is the same
> as the current Allegro one or the one above - since it is questionable
> for some people if it is a license, apparently.
>
> I'll shut up now about this. I didn't expect anything like that.. at
> least I know now what "public domain" means :)
>
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> Elias Pschernig
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