I'm OK with MIT. On 2013-02-27, at 10:47 PM, Greg Ercolano <e...@seriss.com> wrote:
> Would like to hear from Albrecht, Matt, and Mike on this as well. > > Greg: Zlib or MIT with exceptions to relax use and not require citations > Ian: Zlib, add exception to relax code use > > Recommendations of other licenses are fine too. > > I think all we really want people NOT to do is attempt to declare ownership > to themselves, then try to leverage others with it, as well as including a > "limited warranty" and "liability waiver". > > As an example of usurping ownership, say someone at Company A uses some > of our example code, then he leaves the company. Years later, Company A > thinks our examples were taken from their code (due to the similarity) > and attempt to take us, or others to task about it. > > I did some research trying to figure out what license books use for their > examples, but couldn't find much. > > O'Reilly has the following general policy for reuse of code examples from his > books, but it's not really "a license", it's just a FAQ response from Tim > O'Reilly: > http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html > > In general, all books have copyright notices at the front, but don't generally > discuss the use of example code.. the implication is to of course use them, > and people usually reference the source if they want when appropriate, but > are certainly not forced. > > It'd be nice if our example code didn't need paragraphs of license prologue, > and could just reference a file (eg. README-License.txt) that comes with > the examples. > > _______________________________________________ > fltk-dev mailing list > fltk-dev@easysw.com > http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev _____________ Michael Sweet _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list fltk-dev@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
