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Recommend a license, please


From: Ivan Fomichev
Subject: Recommend a license, please
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:20:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello,

I would like to license the software of my own under a free software
license. I've browsed many of them, but nothing meets my needs. The
license of my choice should be a) human-readable (opposing to lawyer-
readable ;-), b) weak copyleft, c) enforceable and d) GPL-compatible.
There's an example of what I would like to get below my signature. I
made a hybrid of NCSA and Sleepycat licenses and modified the copyleft
clause so it would be weak copyleft, borrowing some wordings from the
Q Public License. Is there a similar license available nearby? I
definitely would not like to invent a bike.

Regards,
Ivan

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