| Jeff Abrahamson on 17 Jun 2004 14:50:03 -0000 |
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:28:55AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote (in
private email and in slightly permuted order):
> > (Of course, I'd prefer that people indicate a GPL-compatible license
> > or release to the public domain, but mostly I'd like to encourage
> > people to just be clear.)
> It might help your cause if you include a pointer to a suitable
> license which anyone could use carte-blanche without further ado.
> They could just include the URL. I, for one, have never looked into
> anything like that so I have no clue where to start.
Dan is quite right, I'm sorry. Here is a link that explains how to
use the GPL. It takes a few minutes to peruse if one really wants to
understand, but ultimately comes down to attaching some boilerplate to
what you write.
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
In an email it is probably enough to simply state
This code is copyright (c) <year> by <name> and is available under
the GPL version 2 or (at your option) later.
You can also put things in the public domain by saying something like
this (IANAL):
I am the author of this code and I place it in the public domain
as of today, <date>.
--
Jeff
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