Some license goodies

[Mikemk]

I made some little banners to put at the tops of source code files. They're not really useful, but...

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/*                                       
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  iBMBX           jB    NBBi       NMBB   iBBB           
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 BBB       iqkIoLBMB    qBBBMBBBOki       iBMB           
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  iBBBN          BBB    NBBv              iBBM           
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*/
/*         
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vBBB              BBBE           iBI   iBBM        BBBY   BBBi          
LBBB             BBBu                  iBBB        iBBB   BBBi          
vBBB            VBMB                   iBBB         BBB   BBBi          
LMBB            BBBi                   iBBB        OBBE   BBBi          
vBBB            BBB                    iBBO      iBBBB    BBBi          
vBBB            BBB       iBBBBBBBBV   iBMBBBBBBBBBML     BBBi          
vBBB            BBBr       NIIuYBBBU   iBBMBBBBBqv        BBBi          
LBBB            SBBB            jBBL   iBBM               BBBi          
vBBB             BBBF           IBBJ   iBBB               BBBi          
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*/
/*                      
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*/

Also, I am releasing these to be freely used for inclusion into source code files falling under the licenses GPL, LGPL, and BSD, respectively. They may NOT be included in projects with other licenses.

[sortie]

Cool!

Ideas for improvement: Including the disclaimer of warranty and merchantability for legal reasons, adding copyright statements, a notice about which package it is part of, the name of the current file, a link to the license in question, and perhaps a sentence that foo is licensed under bar?

Regardless - You should release these things in a manner that allows people to just copy and use them for any purpose without attribution. If you GPL/LGPL/BSD them, then people have to additionally attribute you in the header. It's pretty useless.

[Mikemk]

Regardless - You should release these things in a manner that allows people to just copy and use them for any purpose without attribution. If you GPL/LGPL/BSD them, then people have to additionally attribute you in the header. It's pretty useless.

I considered putting them in public domain, except I was afraid I might get in trouble for somebody, say, putting an giant GPL in non GPL work. Honestly, I don't really care what they're used for or whether I get credit.

EDIT: I didn't license them as GPL, LGPL, or BSD. I licensed them for use in those for any reason.

[dozniak]

It's completely useless in the case of BSD at least.

It is much better to use this space to put the BSD license verbatim. It's short.

For GPL and LGPL, it's much more useful to put up links to the licenses and the most crucial bit of information - which version of GPL you use; GPLv2 and GPLv3 are radically different licenses. This is much more valuable information to whoever is going to read your code than ASCII art banners.

tl/dr: As your attorney (c) I recommend you do not use these banners anywhere in the source.

[Brynet-Inc]

These are unsightly and do not belong in source files.

[Mikemk]

They're not really useful, but...

Like I said