From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 22:16:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB09716A400 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E2643D48 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:16:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so961589nzi for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:16:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ugKhAk0ydHVJbebIxdlphdFXvgV/xmPrE6GtiLcShmcBAKq/FMPIexzJrg4Y64SrWbLBiiVrFDTbJBJqPP447+OiCs6cZgiEUGmwH7Q4yuEuPOZ1xpPLfsubUoywKct5JmvPlD/cuhUacRbx7XXFMe23hVc9kFjB6MknLSuqhco= Received: by 10.36.224.2 with SMTP id w2mr297931nzg; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:16:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:16:28 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: BSD License "Innocence" Clause Proposal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:16:31 -0000 I'm not sure if I should start advocating the idea here. Some people must've had this thought before I ever did, I hope they will support me. We need a special clause in the license we release our work under. I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that it will be very hard to devise and formulate. Basically, it should state that under no circumstances and under no legislation should ever any entity be punished for breaking the license terms. I just can't sleep tight when a man can get sued and prosecuted because he copied a piece of my work without mentioning my name, whatever his motives are. At the same time, I respect my work and the work of other, and appreciate a way to state that names should be mentioned. So we need a "law", that can be followed and can be broken, but can't be enforced. What do you think, guys?