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pmttavara / pt_math

public domain fast scalar math routines
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Would you be willing to consider releasing this under CC0? #1

Open skissane opened 1 month ago

skissane commented 1 month ago

Some people will view "zero-clause BSD" as not truly public domain, but CC0 as being so. Yet CC0 does attempt to address the "public domain dedication might not be legally possible in certain countries" issue.

Another option, is "disjunctive licensing". You could change the license notice at the bottom of the file to say something like this:

/* You may use this software under EITHER of the below licenses, at your option:

OPTION 1

Under the terms of CC0 1.0 Universal, available at: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt 

OPTION 2

Copyright (c) Phillip Trudeau-Tavara, 2017-2019. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */
kerravon86 commented 4 weeks ago

Hi Simon. Could you contact me at mutazilah@gmail.com to see if we can sort out where we stand with public domain software currently? I ran into an issue with PdAndro and one thing led to another and your name came up. Note - if I said something "wrong" in the past that upset you - regardless of whether that was intentional or not (it wasn't), I apologize and I hope you can forgive me and we can move on as I have more important things to do than insist I didn't do anything wrong ever. Thanks.