<x-flowed>At 01:33 PM 1/15/01 -0600, David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the best license for a distribution such as a LEAF Project?
David,
When we applied for the project on SourceForge, we selected the GPL license.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/leaf/
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
>I was considering the MIT License myself, and find it probably
>matches my goals best, though I'm not yet certain.
>
>Also, can you really "license" a distribution anyway? It's really
>made up of all the other programs, and they have their own licenses.
>Could a MIT-Licensed distribution contain GNU-Licensed binaries in
>it? Doesn't this complicate things?
You may run into a problem with LRP & Linux which are released under the GPL.
>The MIT License is supposedly equivalent to the newly-modified BSD
>License - which now has the advertizing clause removed.
>
>The MIT License is validated by the Open Source Initiative as a
>license compatible with "Open Source," thus allowing the licensor to
>use these words along with the license:
>
>This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
>OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
>
>Several other licenses are valid, including the BSD License, the MIT
>License, the GNU License, the Artistic License, and quite a few
>others.
>
>Anybody have comments or ideas?
I think as long as the LEAF releases use OSI certified licenses it wont be
a problem.
SourceForge has a forum for discussing these issues:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=25232
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Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
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