Picking a license

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Sat May 15 08:52:03 EDT 2010


Ed Keith <e_d_k at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I can not imagine anyone being stupid enough to pay me for rights to
> use code I had already published under the Boost License, which grants
> then the rights to do anything they want with it without paying me
> anything. 
>   -EdK
> 
Really?

The Boost License says, amongst other things:

> 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, TITLE AND
> NON-INFRINGEMENT. 

Are you sure you can't imagine anyone offering to pay you for an 
alternative license that came with some kind of warranty or support?




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