From c0ccd33f263500b185dea8628a5299b2e31a9f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:36:04 +0200 Subject: chore: change licence to MIT-0 We've decided to simplify the Subplot licensing situation by changing the licence to MIT-0 from the GPL. See https://gitlab.com/subplot/subplot/-/issues/229 for agreements from everyone involved. Sponsored-by: author --- README.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6134fb5..ac8699e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -59,17 +59,31 @@ $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc # Legalese -Copyright 2019-2021 Lars Wirzenius, Daniel Silverstone +The Subplot software is released using the MIT licence. The copy of +the licence text is from originally. -This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. +## The MIT License (MIT) -This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -GNU General Public License for more details. +Copyright 2019-2021 Lars Wirzenius, Daniel Silverstone -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program. If not, see . +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +“Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. +IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY +CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, +TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE +SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +Fork this project to create your own MIT license that you can always +link to. -- cgit v1.2.1