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Re: License for debian packaging of non-free works (Re: GMAP -- Align mRNA and EST sequences to a genome).



Hi Charles

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:47:41AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> More recently, I have used a more fancy license to indicate my intention
> to have my work treated as if it were in the public domain:
> http://blitiri.com.ar/p/bola/
> 
> However, I understand that one may prefer a more common license. I just would
> like to point out one inconvenience of the so-called ???BDS license???, which is
> that actually each instance usually differs by the list of names that is given
> in the non-endorsment clause. Therefore, when collating copyright notices, each
> variant of the BSD license has to be listed, which is annoying when projects
> aggregate larger quantity of contributions.
> 
> Here are a non-comprehensive list of ???invariant??? alternatives:
> 
>  - The Boost Software License (http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt).
>  - The ISC license (https://www.isc.org/software/license).
>  - The FreeBSD license (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html).
>  - The Gnu all-permissive license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GNUAllPermissive),
>    that is even simpler but still include a non-warranty disclaimer.

Would you mind to sumarise this in a paragraph of our group policy?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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