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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hello world. I am a lot into Open Source lately, with prudence, still, but... I mean: I wish users would be all tech-savvy, it would make my job easier and more interesting, so what about sharing the non-commercial, but rare gems? And why not showing people that a legal framework exists for this, provided by the gnu software foundation: Sample lgpl'ed source code: http://www.beyondwonderland.com/data/java/java_OpenGL.zip License reference / home: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html And ALL one has to do to make such a license "valid", adding this to the source code: [quote] one line to give the library's name and an idea of what it does. Copyright (C) year name of author This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: [/quote] ..so when Bill Gates will try to steal my billion dollar invention, I'll have what it takes to prosecute :D Loading...
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