Re: [Notion-general] LICENSE file in contrib

[Philipp H. <ph...@ph...>]

Hi,

I propose to replace the current contrib/LICENSE file by the following 
statement:

    This directory contains a collection of user-contributed scripts for Notion.
    
    Each script starts with an "Authors" header, indicating the respective
    copyright holders, followed by a "License" header, indicating the software
    license the script is released under.
    
    For a script with an "Authors" header of "Unknown", it is assumed in good faith 
    that the script is in the public domain.
    
    For a script with a known copyright holder but with a "License" header of
    "Unknown", it is assumed in good faith that the script has been contributed to
    the Ion/Notion script collection for other people to unconditionally use and
    modify. This intention is very well reflected by the MIT license, see
    http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php . We therefore assume that such 
    a script can be distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

Let me note that these assumptions are backed by the copyright file of the
ion3-scripts Debian package, see [1], which even states that a script with a
"License" header of "Unknown" is in the public domain. 

Also our own website[2] includes a "public domain" notice, which at least
backs the assumption on scripts with an "Authors" header of "Unknown".

So in both cases, people would have had years to complain in case they disagreed
with the above assumptions.

Opinions? Objections? :)

Best,
Philipp

[1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ion3-scripts/20070515.debian-1/
[2] http://notion.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=notion/contrib;a=blob_plain;f=index_git.html;hb=HEAD