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benapetr / compress

btrfs user space tool that makes it possible to change the +c flags recursively on existing files and move their data to effectively activate the compression
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What is the license for this script? #1

Closed palopezv closed 7 years ago

palopezv commented 8 years ago

@benapetr I want to package this script for the Arch Linux User Repository, but I need to know the licensing terms. If you don't explicitly state the license you are publshing a propietary work under copyright law, which is enforceable everywhere under the 1886 Berne Convention and all the treaties signed under the World Trade Organization since the creation of the UN, even if the work is yours. See [1] for a short description of the problem.

If you want to dedicate it to the public domain, it becomes a rather thorny issue, because the public domain does not exist in many countries due to legislation stating that copyright law is above the will of the individual renouncing his/her rights. If that is the case, may I suggest you use the "unlicense"[2]? That's what I use to dedicate my little works to the public domain.

[1] http://choosealicense.com/no-license/ [2] http://unlicense.org/

benapetr commented 7 years ago

Hi, I have no problem releasing with no license, although I usually use GPLv3 or LGPL, but the website you sent me doesn't seem to work? http://unlicense.org/ Server not found

benapetr commented 7 years ago

I couldn't find much about unlicense, so it's now licensed with BSD, which I find more permissive than GPL

palopezv commented 7 years ago

Thank you very much. You are right. Apparently the owner of the web site let it lapse, as recently as the beginnng of this month. Here is the link to the last entry in archive.org, for completeness sake:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170630121319/http://unlicense.org/