[mercury-users] Mercury Anarchive proposal

[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Marcos Dumay de Medeiros wrote:

>>>>    I'm not good at picking one of the ready-made licences, all I want is
>>>>    that my credit is recognized and kept in comments.
>>>
>>> So it's not free. You still can get something like that from Creative
>>> Commons.
>>
>> It is free.  Pretty much every free software license requires that
>> attribution to original authors remains.  Even the BSD license requires this
>> (it's one of the few things BSD does require).
>
> Aren't you refering to the old BSD licence? It changed (a long time ago) just
> to remove that clause and become a free licence. As a rule, the person who
> you give the code must be able to change everything and still redistribute,
> otherwise it isn't free. And everything includes comments and notes on the
> interface.

BSD (updated, from http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) looks 
like this:

     Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
     All rights reserved.

     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
     modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

         * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
         * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
         * Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its
     contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
     software without specific prior written permission.

Clauses 1 and 2 meet the original "all I want is that my credit is
recognized and kept in comments" desire, as far as I can tell.

Nick
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