[sword-devel] osis.py

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 11 May 2010 19:58, Weston Ruter <westonruter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, it has to be open source because we don't have a paid GitHub
> account :-) But you're right, I added a copyright block:
> http://github.com/openscriptures/api/commit/a731bdd68b84415f22d3a2d3a035e6ad827eaf28
>
> Dual licensed MIT/GPL.
>

Kind of pointless =) MIT is compatible with GPL and MIT is less
restrictive =) so *everyone* will choose MIT =)

Plus you need to think about people without internet access who might
receive your software. (or have internet access but live in a
prosecuted country and get your software e.g. via printout in a
letter).

So actually it would have been absolutely amazing to have this header
(taken from http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)


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Copyright (C) 2010 OpenScriptures.org

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
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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.


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> Thanks!
> Weston
>
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
> <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11 May 2010 17:32, Weston Ruter <westonruter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm working on a Python module for representing osisIDs (works,
>> > passages,
>> > IDs, and refs). I think I've got the OsisWork class baked pretty well
>> > (at
>> > least for reading/parsing), and I would appreciate your thoughts:
>> > http://github.com/openscriptures/api/blob/master/osis.py#L122
>> >
>>
>> Currently I can only assume that it is proprietary software =)
>>
>> Please include copyright and license at the top of the file.
>>
>> Copyright (C) YYYY Name Lastname
>>
>> and boiler-plate for one of the OSI / FSF approved licenses.
>>
>> I recommend you to choose between Expat, 3-Clause BSD or LGPL / GPL
>> licenses depending on how much freedom you would like to grant =)
>>
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