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Arjen:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a simple, short, no BS license for my N.A.N.Y. freeware/donationware application?

mouser:
great question.  You might notice from my apps that i am license-ignorant.
I'd love to see someone with some knowledge of open source licenses and closed-source freeware licenses posts some suggestions.

Arjen:
Well, if you ask me, it's a "necessary evil", so the shorter the better.

There used to be shareware/freeware that said: "This program is only guaranteed to take up hard disk space". I liked that. :)

Jibz:
I quite like the zlib license:

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

    1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

    2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

    3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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Basically: free to use, don't blame me if anything goes wrong, and don't claim you wrote it :Thmbsup:.

Arjen:
Sounds good.

    2. Altered source versions [..]

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-Jibz (December 15, 2006, 05:48 AM)
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Does this mean this license is only meant/usable for open source software? Not for free but closed source software (freeware/donationware)?

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