Re: The Free Software Definition - Free Software Foundation

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
nospam-02B8DE.00252124102008@feeder.motzarella.org">news:nospam-02B8DE.00252124102008@feeder.motzarella.org...

>The Aztec C Museum is an extraordinary work. What license do you use?

Harry Suckow (the Copyright holder) has given permission for use of Aztec C 
by hobbyists and enthusiasts for educational (including self-educational) 
AKA "Having Fun" use. If the compiler source still existed it would be 
provided under the same terms.

The site is a work in progress. During the coming winter it will expand 
greatly. I am preoccupied with my commercial fishing business at the moment 
and have no time right now to play with the site.

>Sorry, I didn't see it on the site?

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/index.htm#copyright

All my stuff is copyrighted by me with a licence in the source code where I 
see fit. Here's an example:

Licence Agreement
-----------------

All my work is copyrighted and belongs to me. I wrote
this program from scratch. However this program is a
derivative work in pretty much every way.

That notwithstanding this is also a programming demo,
albeit for an obsolete computer and a vanished market.

I herewith grant you a non-exclusive and conditional
licence to use this source code and the output files it
produces for whatever use you deem fit provided you do
not take credit for my work, and that you leave the
copyright notices intact in all of it.

If you augment or otherwise use my work you must always
also include your own personal copyright notice but it
may never be a GNU public licence or anything else that
resembles fascism or totalitarianism and
world-domination or a commercial or educational licence
either. You can use my stuff commercially or for GNU
with my conditions intact if they let you (they should
since copyright is for authors and the public and I
belong to both groups) but you must never copyright my
work with any company copyright whatsoever; just your
own personal copyright like mine and leave mine in
place. That is the way copyright is intended to work
and that is the way that it will work with my stuff
unless I selectively decide otherwise.

In addition you must agree that I am not liable in any
way shape or form for any damage from the use of any of
this in any way whatsoever.

If you do not agree with all of the aforementioned
conditions of use then remove all of this from your
computer now.

Bill Buckels
bbuckels@mts.net
May 2008

>I'm guessing it's the redistribution-of-derived-works part of the GPL you 
>find onerous.

Sort of. Why should I care if Apple II folks use my source for their 
programs? I want to prevent GNU's CopyLeft being attached as a restriction 
to my work and its derivatives. I will decide what I give away and what I 
keep and when I give away something all I ask is that the stuff stay out of 
GNU and other licencing schemes.

Screw the publishers. Copyright is for authors.

Bill