This is very helpful! I don't really mind though. Maybe public domain is best. I'm not a big believer in copyright.
— Jenna On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:57 PM, Anthony Durity wrote: > Hey there, > > BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved. > Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS means > generally an accepted free software license or and accepted open-source > license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses like the GPL-style > licenses force the code to remain open if an entity modifies the source _and_ > redistributes the subsequent binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus > sometimes seen as more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of > freedom (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel that > BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer. > > If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with > (L)GPL2 > (L)GPL3 > Apache > MIT > BSD > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences > > If you want to free it to the four corners of the earth but not have it FOSS > then public domain it - certain high profile pieces of software are public > domain (Sqlite I think?) but not many. > > Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this. > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jenna Fox <a...@creativepony.com > (mailto:a...@creativepony.com)> wrote: > > A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a > > software license on it, so I guess it's not technically FOSS yet. What > > licenses are good? BSD? Public Domain? > > > > > > — > > Jenna > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Camping-list mailing list > > Camping-list@rubyforge.org (mailto:Camping-list@rubyforge.org) > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org (mailto:Camping-list@rubyforge.org) > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > >
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