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Re: Legalize access to file descriptors now! (So sue me.)
- From: "Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel at ginac dot de>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:36:08 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Legalize access to file descriptors now! (So sue me.)
- Reply-to: <Richard dot Kreckel at ginac dot de>
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Joe Buck wrote:
[...]
> In the meantime, if you want people to pick up your hack, you'd need to
> give it a real license. You give people permission to use it "free of
> charge" but give no permission to modify it or redistribute it.
Read on. To the extent that such code can be copyrighted at all, how can
"you may use it however pleases you" possibly be interpreted in any
controversial way?
> Better
> to just pick a standard license that reflects your wishes.
Okay. Do you have a suggestion?
Regards
-richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
<http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>