Re: Why GNU GPL is bad for crypto deployment

bram (bram@gawth.com)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT)

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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> on 10/01/98 02:38:29 PM
>
> My license on stuff I write (non-commercially) is the most liberal
> possible:
>
> the user can do _anything_ with it. redistribute under any license
> (including GNU), claim they wrote it, sell it, license it, whatever.
>
> It is truly a "STEAL THIS CODE" license.

It also might be useful to add the non-legally binding -

'If you use this code, please let me know, it might encourage me to write
future versions'

Just to ease one's curiosity a little bit :)

-Bram

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