Picking a license

[Ed Keith]

--- On Sat, 5/15/10, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> From: Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 8:52 AM
> 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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> 

Would that be a license or a support contract?

    -EdK

Ed Keith
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