Wildebeest Licensing

[Frank Mitchell]

Hi: Why not write your own Software License? Just avoid anything illegal.

Before composing the Wildebeest Licence I read some legal stuff to ensure it 
made sense. Remember, I live in England, where Copyright Law is different, and 
licenses formulated for the USA can be silly. Microsoft's Warranty Disclaimers 
about Merchantability and Personal Injury are completely invalid here. And 
we're covered by European Union law, which doesn't recognise Software Patents 
as such.

Originally I was motivated by Joerg Schilling's experience with "cdrecord". 
I'm sure the "No Warranty" clause attracts people who don't bother to test 
their ideas properly. "Spiegel" is my personal CD Writing project, so I aimed 
to keep it simple and ensure it worked properly. I don't want anybody 
circulating defective versions of a program which people may use to back up 
their data.

On Friday 27 April 2012 22:55:13 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Frank Mitchell <mitchell at wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> writes:
> > While there's a debate about licenses, below is my own Wildebeest
> > License,
> 
> "The first rule of software licenses: don't write your own"
> 
> DES