expatiari expatria » license http://genaud.net genaud.net Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Poetic License http://genaud.net/2005/10/poetic-license/ http://genaud.net/2005/10/poetic-license/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:37:55 +0000 Alex http://genaud.net/2006/11/no-warranty-express-or-implied/ recycle

(c) 2005 Alexander E Genaud

This work ‘as-is’ we provide.
No warranty express or implied.
We’ve done our best,
to debug and test.
Liability for damages denied.

Permission is granted hereby,
to copy, share, and modify.
Use as is fit,
free or for profit.
These rights, on this notice, rely.

]]> http://genaud.net/2005/10/poetic-license/feed/ 13 (c) 2005 All of humanity http://genaud.net/2005/10/c-2005-all-of-humanity/ http://genaud.net/2005/10/c-2005-all-of-humanity/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:41:52 +0000 Alex http://blog.genaud.net/?p=5 Copyrights, licenses, and patents grant an author a little control over how a work may exist in the world. However, there is a growing realization that everyone benefits, including ourselves, from sharing and collaborating on the creation of resources. The digital age is absolutely NOT a zero-sum gain.

I have been looking for a license that is open (all recipients may use a work as they please), copyleft (all subsequent modifications and distributions grant the open right), and simple (easily understood by the legal laity).

I like to spirit of the GPL (copyleft) but find the exclusive cannibalism to be troublesome in practice. Simple licenses, such as MIT or BSD-style, are very open, easy to understand, and thus, quite popular, but, simply by the fact of the licenses existence, still exert some restrictions. Finally, the public domain is the most open “license”, however, it allows anyone the right of exclusivity.

Essentially, I would like to grant a copyright to all of humanity so that anyone may do with a work as they please but can not restrict others from using derivatives as they please.

(c) 2005 All of humanity. All rights reserved.

or

(c) 2005 Whatever beings there may be, weak or strong, without exception, long, large, middling, short, subtle, blatant, seen, unseen, near, far, born, and seeking birth: May all beings be happy at heart.

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