Re: [pygame] PCR & other notes

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Damien Miller wrote:
> IANAL (but this is a pretty common issue)
>
> Putting code into the public domain still leaves the author exposed to 
> liability in certain jurisdictions. For code that is to be made as free 
> as possible while protecting the author, the 2-term BSD license or the 
> X11 license (attached) are usually preferred as they include a liability 
> disclaimer.
it's too bad liability even has to be a concern, but it should be 
addressed. i'm not opposed to going with these licenses. all code 
submitted would probably just 'agree' to be placed under a license like 
this. the code maintainer can hopefully just tag it with a 1 or 2 line 
header that declares the license and a link to it. i would just just

#from the Pygame Cookbook by <authorname>
#public domain with no warranty, http://pygame.org/helpyourself.txt

changing the last line to whatever is best and add an url perhaps?


i quickly browsed the activestate cookbooks and didn't see much of any 
license info, other than 'this code is free to use and browse'. the best 
thing would be if there was no big deal about the license. since the 
more detailed any license information gets, the scarier it all is. then 
for those that care the information would be available somewhere.