[liblouis-liblouisxml] New License Proposal
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:44:19 -0600
Hello,
We probably all want liblouis and liblouisxml to have as few
restrictions on its use and on contributing to it as possible. A few
days ago I sent a message about switching to the LGPL licnse from GPL.
However, the license that I would really like the software to have is
the one used for libxml2, on which liblouisxml depedds heavily. This is
in turn an adaptation of the MIT license. I have in turn modified the
license to meet the need to make liblouind liblouisxml as widely
available as possible. Adoption of the license is of course contengent
on the approval of the BRLTTY team. The license is presented below.
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Copyright (C) 2003-2008
ViewPlus Technologies, Inc.
and
JJB Software, Inc.
The copyright holders acknowledge their debt to the BRLTTY screen reader
for the original source code. This license is approved by the BRLTTY
team and has NO EFFECT on the licensing of their software.
All Rights Reserved.
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 DANIEL VEILLARD 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.
Except as contained in this notice, neither the name of ViewPlus
Technologies Inc. nor JJB Software, Inc. shall be used in advertising or
otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
without prior written authorization from them.
Persons using or dealing in this software are urged to publish any
braille translation tables or semantic-action files which they may
develop, so as to assist others who may wish to use this software. This
is a non-binding request.
--
John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
JJB Software, Inc.
http://www.jjb-software.com
Madison, WI USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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