<div dir="ltr">What's the argument against placing contributions in the public domain? Licences are tedious. Even short ones require reading and understanding when you're using the code, and most people use many projects.<div><br></div><div>Renouncing copyright is simple, flexible and no-one can copyright the work.</div><div><br></div><div>Or am I missing some important legal wrinkle? Do contributors want to keep control of their code?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Hendrik Boom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com" target="_blank">hendrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 06:14:52AM +0000, Jay K wrote:<br>
> Um, sorry to bring up such annoying matters, but maybe we should not<br>
</span>be licensingnew files as GPL, assuming they aren't derived from GPL files?<br>
<span class="">> e.g. the LLVM m3makfiles and Makefiles?<br>
> Thank you, - Jay<br>
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</span>To resurrect a post from ages gone by.<br>
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We should be licencing everything GPL, assuming it's original, and not<br>
already constrained by SRC's license.<br>
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If another license is appropriate, use that too. Make it dual licensed.<br>
Dual licencing works as possible: anyone gets to choose which of<br>
the licences they are going to use. So if your use is allowed by *any*<br>
of the listed licenses, it's OK.<br>
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It's a way to achieve greater compatibility than could be obtained by<br>
any one of those licenses.<br>
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In particular, the copyright owner (initially the author) could grant<br>
rights under both the GPL and the SRC licenses, to assure copatibility<br>
with both. THe LGPL might be better than GPL for freedom, and the MIT<br>
licence even better.<br>
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Tht way, if ever a viable collection of Modula 3 code is licenced under<br>
GPL, that collection can be used with GPL code freely.<br>
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-- hendrik<br>
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