[pypy-svn] rev 1727 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding

[lac at codespeak.net]

Author: lac
Date: Sat Oct 11 18:11:24 2003
New Revision: 1727

Modified:
   pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.allmerged.txt
Log:
Add stuff about Intellectual Property


Modified: pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.allmerged.txt
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--- pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.allmerged.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.allmerged.txt	Sat Oct 11 18:11:24 2003
@@ -334,7 +334,48 @@
 for other people to link to.  All Consortium members will have signed
 a consortium agreement, asserting that all code will be released 
 under the MIT Open Source License, approved by both the Open Source
-Initiative and the Free Software Foundation.  
+Initiative and the Free Software Foundation.   The MIT license is here.
+
+::
+
+    The MIT License
+
+    Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
+
+    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 
+    obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation 
+    files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without 
+    restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, 
+    copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or 
+    sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
+    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included 
+    in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS 
+    OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
+    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
+    THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
+    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
+    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
+    DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+Now you know why we selected it.  It fits on less than half a page, and
+lets anybody do whatever they like with the software.  This does tend 
+to eliminate any contraversy, since there are no clauses that can be
+interpreted in varying fashions.
+
+Management of this intellectual property consists of sticking a note on
+your website, or wherever you keep your sources, and periodically running
+a program, especially before software releases, that sticks an ugly
+copy of the license at the top of every file that you release.
+
+The only other intellectual property which we will produce are 
+scientific papers, talks, and the like.  They will all be freely
+available.  Copyright shall rest in the authors, unless somebody
+gives a paper to one of the scientific journals that keeps all
+copyright to itself.  In either case, no management is necessary.
 
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