discuss: HOWTO under my own license
Subject:
Re: HOWTO under my own license
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 2005 20:59:30 -0000
Message-Id: <20050617205927.GJ5977@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Pradeep Padala ####@####.####
> I am the sole author. Is MIT license more or less restrictive than LDP
> license? The LDP license mentions that it has cannot be more restrictive.
The MIT / X Consortium licence is an "academic"-type simple permissive
licence, similar to BSD.
> For changing the license, can I just add the new license and remove the
> old one?
Sure; it's your text.
> Do I have to mention that it was licensed under a different one
> earlier?
No -- but, if your document includes a revision history, it might be
worth mentioning.
> I am a bit new to this licensing stuff. Please point me to any relevant
> documents, if there are any.
OK.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html
http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm
