Ares 0.15 release

[Sean Kelly]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Todor Totev wrote:
>>>> Sean,
>>>> what license does Ares use?
>>>
>>> Sorry about that.  I'll get file headers in before the next release.
>>
>> I've added licenses to modules that lacked them.  std.math.special 
>> still needs one, but it's from Don's MathExtra library so I'll need to 
>> sort that out separately.
> 
> Actually I don't care. Public domain or something like the Phobos 
> license is fine by me. But as short as possible -- I really *hate* those 
> files where there's 100 lines of legalese and 2 lines of code.
> 
> What I'd really like to find is some kind of "non-infect" free license 
> for libraries. That is, you can do anything you like with this code, 
> except that if you redistribute the source code AS SOURCE CODE, it must 
> remain with the same license. So that if it's included in a GPL project, 
> that single file doesn't get GPLed, and if it's in a commercial library 
> where the source is sold, that single file remains free.

The BSD (artistic) license is about as close as I've found, and is what 
I'm using for the Ares source for pretty much the same reason as you've 
indicated--I really don't care what people do with my code so long as 
they don't claim to have written it.

> But since I don't know of any license that does that, any unrestricted 
> license (including public domain) will do.

Thanks.


Sean