I'm certainly not an expert on the various licenses.  My limited
understanding is that if you don't care what anybody does with it,
including selling it as a commercial product, then BSD or MIT are two that
are short and sweat (I generally use BSD, but forget why).

If you want to limit its use only within other open source projects, then
GNU GPL or GNU Lesser GPL.  These both require anybody redistributing the
code to keep it under the original license.  The Lesser license is for
libraries to allow use of the libraries in other programs without
restrictions while retaining the limitations for the source code.  I think
that the GNU licenses have some gotchas that aren't well understood when a
user wants to use your GPL project along with some other non-GPL project,
so might scare some people off.  I don't believe that GPL prevents somebody
from selling your project commercially, so long as they offer the sources
to anybody who asks for them for free under the same license.  Not sure how
anybody could make money this way, except maybe by selling support?

The apache license is another popular one.  Not sure what it's limitations
are.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.  :-/

-Bruce


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:24 AM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Made all the mods to the preprocessor so it handles free form text between
> #rom statements. Went to put the code in code.google as dangyogisuggested. In 
> creating the project it asks which license to use.
> Suggestions as to the best one to use appreciated as I new to open source
> publishing.
> Many thanks,
> John
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