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Article #707Alternative to the GPL posted in alt.sources
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sat, 05 May 1990 14:27
Date: Sat, 05 May 1990 14:27
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I've posted in alt.sources a first draft of a complete GPL alternative. I designed it with help from a lawyer, but I haven't gotten any paid opinions yet; if you have it reviewed, I'd love to hear the results--- for confidence if they're good or for improvement if they're bad. The basic difference is that a simple limited copyright replaces the license. There are a few minor semantic differences, meant to handle real-world cases better. And there's an explanatory file, WHY, posing and answering some questions. By the way, my future programs will also be placed under this copyright, except that I still prefer tight control over distribution of modified versions and have the copyright limitations simplified accordingly. As usual, I have neither the right nor the desire to control distribution of separately packaged patches, provided that they don't give away too much of my code on the fringes; but I want each installer to know what patches have gone into his version, so that I don't go chasing ghosts. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!stealth.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d,alt.sources.d Subject: Alternative to the GPL posted in alt.sources Message-ID: <27564:May514:27:2190@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 5 May 90 14:27:21 GMT Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: IR Lines: 19