RE: Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version 1.2 release candidate 1!

It has some disclaimers that may help if some one says you gave them the
code for a purpose and then claim its not fit for the purpose.

 

 

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kerravon86
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Subject: [H390-VM] Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version
1.2 release candidate 1!

 

  

--- In [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> , "Dave"
<dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:
>
> If you want to grant as many rights as possible, and 
> yet protect yourself a little then I suggest BSD.

Protect from what?

BSD just ensures that you get creditted at some
level for your work.

And then of course, if you don't think you got
creditted sufficiently, you are free to take the
user to court.

So to protect the user (ie developer) from the
fear of courts, I use public domain. Not possible
for me to take someone to court. I'm no longer
the owner. The public is.

I don't consider the job to be done until it's in
the public domain. So e.g. we'll eventually have
an unrestricted C compiler for MVS (GCC) in another 
140 years or thereabouts, when the copyright expires.

PDPCLIB doesn't require the 140 year wait.

BFN. Paul.