On 03/16/11 12:09, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Theo wrote: >>> I think that Colin's behaviour is misleading and contemptable. >> >> I had no intention of misleading people. It never occurred to me that anyone >> would be misled (to be honest, I'd be surprised if even 10% of people running >> Tarsnap look at the LICENSE file). > > Somewhere along the line a breed of 'BSD licences' came into being > that have a 'misplaced modifier' in them. We don't use any code that > has that an english error called a 'misplaced modifier'; giving the > sentence two potential meanings. We contacted tens of developers and > asked them to replace the 'misplaced modifier'. All of them obliged > except the xntpd developers. > > One word can change the meaning of a sentence. You failed at what you > intended, and you also confused people.
You're the only person who has ever told me that the Tarsnap license is confusing. Maybe everybody else was confused but didn't want to admit it. In any case, I'm happy to change the license text to make it clearer; how do you think "here's some code for you to use to access the Tarsnap service; that's the only thing you're allowed to use it for" should be phrased? -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
