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You're not writing Windows 7, is the thing, and there's other common tools in the area of text parsing/mangling which have much more standard licenses.
by vertex-four 10y ago
You're not writing Windows 7, is the thing, and there's other common tools in the area of text parsing/mangling which have much more standard licenses.
- kazinator 10y agoTo frame things more constructively, what imagined situation are you most concerned about? "Here I am, using this program five years from now when, due to the licensing, <bad thing> happens." What is <bad thing>? For example, is it something you would suddenly like to do with the program, but are not permitted (yet would be if it used the original BSD license verbatim?)
- kazinator 10y agoThe <bad thing> is this: "I've been using this nice program for a while now and started redistributing it, and now my organization/customers/whoever are giving me grief due to its weirdly modified BSD-ish license." Grief is grief, even if those people are inflicting it for an unsubstantiated reason (fear of the unknown).
- vertex-four 10y agoIndeed. I'm an occasional packager for a small Linux distro, and there's a reasonable chance this counts as a non-free license with your modifications... which in this distro means we couldn't distribute binary packages and installing it from source would have to have a user manually enable non-free packages.
- vertex-four 10y ago(When I say "might", I mean "I have no idea, and I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford one to look at your custom license".)