Friday, April 26, 2013

A wonderful message in place of a legal notice!

In a world of copyrights, patents, obfuscation, anti trust laws, competitive suits, reverse engineering, etc., I came across this wonderful message in the header of an open source code file.

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** The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of
** a legal notice, here is a blessing:
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**    May you do good and not evil.
**    May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
**    May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
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What a wonderful message! Writing code for the sake of sharing with the world rather than for making a living has elevated the coding as an expression of love!!

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