You could read Stallman's CopyLeft idea http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
to prevent unscrupulous individual from turning your code into a
profitable product (I think) - DaveE
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> 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
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