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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:13:30 -0700
Subject: Re: im.py: a python communications tool
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article
> <bc3d27b1-fdf6-4931-bf11-38ac36a0f0b0@cd3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
>  Jake D <jhunter.dunefsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the licence?
>> --It's released under a special FOSS licence.  Here it is:
>> ----You can do whatever you want with this program.
>
> I know this is off-topic, but I encourage people to NOT invent their own
> licenses.  Take your pick of any of the well-known (Berkeley, MIT, GPL,
> etc) licenses, and use that.  [...]

That all being said, and excellent policy and commentary in general,
no one should have trouble interpreting "do whatever you want with
it", legally or otherwise.

Mark