Why would I care if they did that? — Jenna
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:19 PM, Dave Everitt wrote: > 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 > > > (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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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