Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:16:28 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: BSD License "Innocence" Clause Proposal Message-ID: <cb5206420603191416w7f3bd56ehf02a40a43693eb0e@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm not sure if I should start advocating the idea here. Some people must've had this thought before I ever did, I hope they will support me. We need a special clause in the license we release our work under. I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that it will be very hard to devise and formulate. Basically, it should state that under no circumstances and under no legislation should ever any entity be punished for breaking the license terms. I just can't sleep tight when a man can get sued and prosecuted because he copied a piece of my work without mentioning my name, whatever his motives are. At the same time, I respect my work and the work of other, and appreciate a way to state that names should be mentioned. So we need a "law", that can be followed and can be broken, but can't be enforced. What do you think, guys?
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