On Sunday 19 September 2004 13:38, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
>
> I released my work for free and i want to be sure it will be free. As
> minimum, from the point of view and example i wrote above. From this POV
> re-licensing my work from BSD to GPL heavily restricts the end user rights.
> I want to avoid it.

Actually, ACE+TAO+CIAO license is very close to what i mean:

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html

PS: From the point of view of end user: "We don't play in license wars or 
politics. We just let people to do their engineering work".

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Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and 
CoSMIC(TM)

ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and CoSMIC(TM) (henceforth referred to as "DOC 
software") are copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at 
Washington University, University of California, Irvine, and Vanderbilt 
University, Copyright (c) 1993-2004, all rights reserved. Since DOC software 
is open-source, free software, you are free to use, modify, copy, and 
distribute--perpetually and irrevocably--the DOC software source code and 
object code produced from the source, as well as copy and distribute modified 
versions of this software. You must, however, include this copyright 
statement along with code built using DOC software. 

You can use DOC software in proprietary software and are under no obligation 
to redistribute any of your source code that is built using DOC software. 
Note, however, that you may not do anything to the DOC software code, such as 
copyrighting it yourself or claiming authorship of the DOC software code, 
that will prevent DOC software from being distributed freely using an 
open-source development model. You needn't inform anyone that you're using 
DOC software in your software, though we encourage you to let us know so we 
can promote your project in the DOC software success stories.. 

DOC software is provided as is with no warranties of any kind, including the 
warranties of design, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose, 
noninfringement, or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade 
practice. Moreover, DOC software is provided with no support and without any 
obligation on the part of Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt 
University, their employees, or students to assist in its use, correction, 
modification, or enhancement. A number of companies around the world provide 
commercial support for DOC software, however. DOC software is Y2K-compliant, 
as long as the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant.

 Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their employees, and 
students shall have no liability with respect to the infringement of 
copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by DOC software or any part thereof. 
Moreover, in no event will Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt 
University, their employees, or students be liable for any lost revenue or 
profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages. 

The ACE, TAO, CIAO, and CoSMIC web sites are maintained by the DOC Group at 
the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) and the Center for 
Distributed Object Computing of Washington University, St. Louis for the 
development of open-source software as part of the open-source software 
community. By submitting comments, suggestions, code, code snippets, 
techniques (including that of usage), and algorithms, submitters acknowledge 
that they have the right to do so, that any such submissions are given freely 
and unreservedly, and that they waive any claims to copyright or ownership. 
In addition, submitters acknowledge that any such submission might become 
part of the copyright maintained on the overall body of code, which comprises 
the DOC software. By making a submission, submitter agree to these terms. 
Furthermore, submitters acknowledge that the incorporation or modification of 
such submissions is entirely at the discretion of the moderators of the 
open-source DOC software projects or their designees. 

The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University, UC 
Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or promote 
products or services derived from this source without express written 
permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University. 
Further, products or services derived from this source may not be called 
ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), or CoSMIC(TM) nor may the name Washington 
University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University appear in their names, 
without express written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, and 
Vanderbilt University. 

If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please let me 
know. 

Douglas C. Schmidt
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