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Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at nadlanu.com]
Author: Stephen Eley
"This is a proposed draft of the Don't Be a Dick license for open source projects. The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible scope for reuse and modification of creative work, restricted only by the requirement that one is not a dick about it."
Full text at http://github.com/SFEley/candy/blob/master/LICENSE.markdown
Awesome 
Pedja
-- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Predrag Ivanovic wrote:
> > Author: Stephen Eley > > "This is a proposed draft of the Don't Be a Dick license for open source projects. > The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible scope for reuse and > modification of creative work, restricted only by the requirement that one is not a dick about it." > > Full text at > http://github.com/SFEley/candy/blob/master/LICENSE.markdown > > Awesome
Just read it - it is awesome. I wish it had some legal validity... I'd
adopt it for all my work in a minute.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at nadlanu.com]
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:44:25 -0400 Ben Okopnik wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Predrag Ivanovic wrote: >> >> Author: Stephen Eley >> >> "This is a proposed draft of the Don't Be a Dick license for open source >> projects. The purpose of this license is to permit the broadest feasible >> scope for reuse and modification of creative work, restricted only by the >> requirement that one is not a dick about it." >> >> Full text at >> http://github.com/SFEley/candy/blob/master/LICENSE.markdown >> >> Awesome
"For legal purposes, the DBAD license is a superset of the Apache License,"
Could we persuade OSI to take a look at this?
Too frivolous for their taste, I fear...
Too bad, it would be awesome (in a Eddie Izzard kinda awesome definition of awesome )
Confused yet?
http://tinyurl.com/y39umjb
Pedja
-- If it weren't for computers we'd probably be in bed at a decent hour.
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:12:29PM +0200, Predrag Ivanovic wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:44:25 -0400 > Ben Okopnik wrote: > > >Just read it - it is awesome. I wish it had some legal validity... I'd > >adopt it for all my work in a minute.
The problem is more in the nature of "will fall apart with even the slightest scrutiny". Y'know how the first X pages of any contract are all about rigid definitions, all "Blatzer, Scrug, Ffyfins, Glagger, and Dodd Uniform Properties Incorporated, Diversified, and Agglutinatively Homogenized, hereuntothereforeundercrotchwise known as 'Company'..."? Right. "Poorly defined or undefined terms", etc. - any judge would immediately throw it out. Approach the bench with anything resembling a sense of humor? Heaven forfend. Thirty days in the clink at the very least for impugning the dignity of the court with your frivolous ways - and we'll make sure that Big Bubba is your cellmate. He'll appreciate his new girlfriend having a sense of humor...
> Too bad, it would be awesome (in a Eddie Izzard kinda awesome definition of awesome
You're an Eddie Izzard fan too? Right on. "Cake... or death?" is a
standard Okopnik household in-joke. Between Eddie and Margaret Cho,
we're well up on our dark and spiky comedy ration.
> Confused yet? > http://tinyurl.com/y39umjb
well, if you're going to do that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnvRjwSCPo
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at nadlanu.com]
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:20:21 -0400 Ben Okopnik wrote:
>The problem is more in the nature of "will fall apart with even the >slightest scrutiny". Y'know how the first X pages of any contract are >all about rigid definitions, all "Blatzer, Scrug, Ffyfins, Glagger, and >Dodd Uniform Properties Incorporated, Diversified, and Agglutinatively >Homogenized, hereuntothereforeundercrotchwise known as 'Company'..."? >Right. "Poorly defined or undefined terms", etc. - any judge would >immediately throw it out. Approach the bench with anything resembling a >sense of humor? Heaven forfend. Thirty days in the clink at the very >least for impugning the dignity of the court with your frivolous ways - >and we'll make sure that Big Bubba is your cellmate. He'll appreciate >his new girlfriend having a sense of humor... ><laugh>Nice.
>> Too bad, it would be awesome (in a Eddie Izzard kinda awesome definition of >> awesomeOh, yes.Few years back I watched "Definite Article" on BBC Prime, I'm hooked ever since. Margaret Cho is a nice discovery, there is a lack of female stand-up comedy, I don't know why. "THIS IS NOT... THE SALAD OF MY? PEOPLE!" My favorites are also Jimmy Carr (the way he tortures his audience is incredible) and Michael McIntyre, who is just funny as hell.
Pedja -- system needs to be rebooted