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i miss the lovely and extremely liberal zlib/libpng license.

in short "here's the code, don't sue us".




Wouldn't the MIT/X11 license be a good choice for this situation? It's fairly liberally used, permissive, and has a similar anti-endorsement clause.


Main difference is that the zlib license does not require you to ship the copyright from non-source distributions. It's essentially "I don't need credit, as long as you don't say you made it yourself".




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