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Author Re: Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager
Nick Welch

2005-03-06, 2:48 am

(not sure if i can post to this list, but what the hey)

> That's not a free license. In fact, it's about as non-free as you can
> get, since it's essentially "all rights reserved"; there's no
> permission to modify or redistribute at all. We can't distribute this,
> even in non-free.
>
> Here's the text:
>
> Use of the works is permitted provided that this instrument
> is retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the
> works is notified of this instrument.
>
> DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.
>
> Usual example of why random people should not be writing licenses.


It's the fair license, which is OSI approved:
http://opensource.org/licenses/fair.php

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Nick Welch aka mackstann | mack @ incise.org | http://incise.org


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