im.py: a python communications tool

[Roy Smith]

In article 
<bc3d27b1-fdf6-4931-bf11-38ac36a0f0b0 at cd3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
 Jake D <jhunter.dunefsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the licence?
> --It's released under a special FOSS licence.  Here it is:
> ----You can do whatever you want with this program.

I know this is off-topic, but I encourage people to NOT invent their own 
licenses.  Take your pick of any of the well-known (Berkeley, MIT, GPL, 
etc) licenses, and use that.

I used to work for a very large corporation.  The legal department was 
(quite reasonably) concerned about use of FOSS, and all open source 
software we used needed to pass legal review.

They were looking for two things.  First, that the license didn't 
obligate the company to anything it didn't want to be obligated to (i.e. 
they wouldn't allow GPL3).  Second, that YOU understood the terms of the 
license and had a plan in place to comply with all the requirements.

The lawyers knew all the major licenses.  If you showed up with 
something that was known (and acceptable) to them, the process was quick 
and (relatively) painless.  If you showed up with some license they had 
no experience with, they would go off into a huddle and not come out 
until they were sure they understood it.

The usual result was that anything that came with a one-off license was 
probably more trouble to get approved than it was worth.