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An example vmod for Varnish Cache
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relax license #12

Closed nigoroll closed 9 years ago

nigoroll commented 9 years ago

just a reminder -- as discussed on IRC, I think relaxing the license of libvmod-example (for instance to stating that it is in the public domain) would help VMOD authors with doubts of their legal departments

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(12:56:23) scn: i don't think we have anything to gain by mandating a license on it (12:57:32) slink: scn: yeah. How about "libvmod-example is in the public domain"? (12:57:35) scn: and copyright .. they get their own when they make a derivative work, don't they? (12:58:05) slink: scn: yes, but in the strict sense one had to keep the copyright for any code stemming from libvmod-example (12:58:45) scn: i don't know why we have all of that stuff in there in the first place. before my time. i'm ok with simplifying it.

perbu commented 9 years ago

I don't mind it being PD.

perbu commented 9 years ago

It would however be nice if they pointed to the example vmod on Github without it being a strict requirement. Just so people know.

fgsch commented 9 years ago

What about http://unlicense.org/ ?

perbu commented 9 years ago

Sure. Looks fine.

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What about http://unlicense.org/ ?

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lkarsten commented 9 years ago

Implemented in 3.0, 4.0 and master. Closing issue.

lkarsten commented 9 years ago

Federico insisted that we should remove the copyright notice as well.

IMHO (IANAL and so on) that does not make any difference, since the authors implicitly have copyright these days, but perhaps it is less confusing to someone using this for the first time.

perbu commented 9 years ago

We won't claim any copyright over this. We should of course list authors but to be perfectly clear we don't have to have a copyright claim.

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Federico insisted that we should remove the copyright notice as well.

IMHO (IANAL and so on) that does not make any difference, since the authors implicitly have copyright these days, but perhaps it is less confusing to someone using this for the first time.

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fgsch commented 9 years ago

I'm not a lawyer but putting this in the public domain and having a copyright in there makes no sense to me. Listing authors OTOH is perfectly fine. I looked at sqlite and youtube-dl, the latter using unlicense, and i cannot find any copyright.