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It seems to me that the author may be interested in the license Donald Knuth used for the Stanford GraphBase, which looks like this: The Stanford GraphBase is
by jsyedidia 16y ago
It seems to me that the author may be interested in the license Donald Knuth used for the Stanford GraphBase, which looks like this:
The Stanford GraphBase is copyright 1993 by Stanford University
These files may be freely copied and distributed, provided that
no changes whatsoever are made. All users are asked to help keep
the Stanford GraphBase sources consistent and "uncorrupted,"
identical everywhere in the world. Changes are permissible only
if the changed file is given a new name, different from the names of
existing files listed below, and only if the changed file is
clearly identified as not being part of the Stanford GraphBase.
The author has tried his best to produce correct and useful programs,
in order to help promote computer science research, but no warranty
of any kind should be assumed.
- btilly 16y agoThat is very similar to the license that Knuth used for TeX as well. However in both cases Knuth made it clear that he is OK with people reusing the TeX source code as long as they make it clear that it isn't TeX. And again his reason is that he wants people to be able to rely on perfectly consistent behavior from anything that is called TeX.