YKY (Yan King Yin) wrote:
On 1/27/07, David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
> This license chooser may help: http://creativecommons.org/license/
>
> Perhaps MindPixel2 discussion deserves its own list at this stage?
Listbox, Google and many others offer list services (Google Code also
offers a wiki, source version management, and other features).
Thanks, but I favor a license that supports some commercial rights, or
I'll need to create one. Google Code only supports free /
copyleft licenses.
I will start a separate list as soon as this is settled...
YKY
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Try to find an existing license that does what you want. Lawyers are
expensive, and those that operate in international law even more so.
Perhaps you want the MPL or the NPL? That will result in some refusing
to cooperate as being "too closed", but it has met with some measure of
acceptance. (Well, "some measure": The companies that crafted those
licenses switched to more standard licenses as a result of adverse
community input...but they definitely had their defenders.)
Another possibility is to take the Qt approach, and have both a QPL
(equivalent) and a GPL. You might want to consider that.
Another possibility to consider is the MySQL approach: to release
everything under the GPL, but insist that all copyrights be signed over
to you. This would allow you to sell commercial versions, and it would
prevent your competitors to release as anything but GPL. (You wouldn't
then be able to incorporate their revisions, but you'd have a clear head
start over them.)
Generally, whatever you want to accomplish, the licensing scheme to
accomplish it has already been created...and so has market research on
the community reaction. So generally it's a waste of time and money to
reinvent the wheel. (Plus the companies who created the licenses
originally hired teams of lawyers to investigate for loopholes and
boobytraps. You likely wouldn't be able to afford that.)
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