With all due respect, I am reluctant to sign this agreement. It
commits me to whatever might be published at the given URL at any
time in the future. I wonder why you didn't make the agreement
concrete by copying the current text into it?
Current contents of <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>:
"Copyright (c) <year>
<copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to
any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons
to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission
notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the
Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR
THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE."
I have no problem with signing this, but I have a problem with
signing a carte blanche.
--Trygve
On 26.09.2014 07:25, stepharo wrote:
Hi guys
do not forget to sign the license agreement
http://files.pharo.org/media/PharoSoftwareDistributionAgreement.pdf
and send us your picture to be added to
http://pharo.org/about
Stef