Does BSD have the "be cool on the patents" clause to provide author protection etc? from what I remember, other then that they are very similar. But "BSD style" seems to mean (in most peoples minds these days) the most liberal to everyone (user and author, not just author).
On Aug 27, 8:34 am, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > Yes, I once used Apache 2.0 but now I'm thinking New BSD is the way to > go. And one of the main reasons I read was that, especially to non- > java people, many see "BSD" and immediately understand what that's > going to be. It's also easier when more and more licenses are > becoming BSD. And it supports multi-license well. > > On Aug 27, 7:50 am, Joshua Marinacci <jos...@marinacci.org> wrote: > > > > > BSD all the way > > On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > > > > Thanks ! That's indeed the kind of accessible explanations I am > > > looking for. > > > > What would be the logical choice for a care-free open source project ? > > > Everybody can use it, modify it, bla bla bla and the usage is your > > > sole responsability. > > > > On Aug 26, 1:55 pm, Mike Jones <mike.a.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi Jan > > > >> OSS Watch provides guidance albeit it is geared to helping the UK > > >> academic community: > > > >>http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ > > > >>http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ipr.xml > > > >> Hope that helps. > > > >> Cheers > > >> Mike > > > >> 2009/8/26 Jan Goyvaerts <java.arti...@gmail.com>: > > > >>> Putting a project on Kenai requires the choice of an open source > > >>> license > > >>> scheme. In Netbeans you'll get a combobox with the names. And if > > >>> I'm not > > >>> mistaken it can show you the licence terms at http:// > > >>> opensource.org/. > > >>> I guess, if I were a jurist of some sorts these terms would be > > >>> without > > >>> question. Alas, I'm not. And I could certainly appreciate some > > >>> kind of > > >>> layman's explanation to the various schemes, differences, for which > > >>> application types, etc... > > >>> Does somebody know where I might look for these ? > > >>> Thanks ! > > >>> Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
