RE: [Garnet-devel] some of the docs are now online

--- Brad Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am delighted to have the manual widely distributed. The
> reason for keeping the copyright is to make sure that CMU
> continues to get credit.

Ah!  Got it.  (Actually, even with public domain code one should still
credit the original authors - in academia that's plagiarism whether or
not the original source is public domain.  The open source community
generally reacts exactly the same way - anyone claiming someone else's
code as their own will not be well regarded, whatever the license
terms.)

If I might make a suggestion, the Modified BSD license might be a good
fit for the manual: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

It's liberal enough to permit a wide variety of uses but unlike public
domain insists on maintaining the copyright notice.  So basically any
work based off of the manual would continue to acknowledge CMU's
original copyright.

> I am authorized to give permission on behalf of CMU and I do
> so for the version now in the cvs tree, which is appropriately
> marked with the copyrights.

Thanks! :-).  If the BSD license doesn't look like a good fit I'll draw
up a note saying that for further uses and distributions of the manual
CMU via yourself should be contacted.

Cheers,
CY

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