[Savannah-register-public] Re: FW: [task #7606] Submission of Ajax Micro Wiki

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I'm not a lawyer, so I cannot say anything about custom licenses or
notices, except that we do not recommend using them.

I think the best option for a non-copyleft free license is to use the
Expat license as-is. You'll save a lot of time for people who want to
know whether your project truly complies with the Free Software
Definition, including the Savannah Hackers, the Debian packagers,
people who reuse your code in existing projects, etc.

Cheers,

-- 
Sylvain

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:38:20AM -0000, Peleg Michaeli wrote:
> Hello Sylvain.
> 
> I attach a new license (notice) that I plan to include in ANY file of the
> project, exclude the LGPL dependencies.
> 
> I hope that this notice is clear enough; please let me know what you think
> and if you approve it.
> 
> Thanks ahead,
> Peleg.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvain Beucler [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:44 AM
> To: Sylvain Beucler; Peleg Michaeli; address@hidden
> Subject: [task #7606] Submission of Ajax Micro Wiki
> 
> 
> Update of task #7606 (project administration):
> 
>                   Status:                    None => Done                   
>              Assigned to:                    None => Beuc                   
>              Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
> 
>     _______________________________________________________
> 
> Follow-up Comment #1:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I approved your project.
> 
> Note that your alternate license notice (for the case where public domain is
> not possible) is unclear, because it only allow "use" and not "modification"
> or "redistribution". I suggest you use the Expat license instead, which is
> very small and properly worded:
> http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt
> 
> Please fix this before to upload your code at Savannah.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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> filename.php
> 
> This file is part of the FreeLy Project - Ajax Micro Wiki Core package.
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> 
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