Jake b <ninmonk...@gmail.com> writes: > I want: > 1] Pretty much let anyone use it. Users do not have to include source > code, as long as I get credit. (which I think normallly is a textfile > with project url + name?)
The simplest effective license that requires nothing more that attribution is “under the terms of the Expat license” <URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt>. The terms are effectively the same as some of the MIT/X11 licenses, but: * It's even shorter and simpler, while still being widely regarded as effective. * The name “Expat license” is far less ambiguous, because MIT have released X11 under several different licenses, not all of them free. > 2] (if it matters) I will be using different combinations of pyglet, > pygame, wxPython, etc. You'll need to check the license terms on anything that you combine your work with, to see what the effective combination of terms will be. > 3] I want the option to use my own code in something commercial at a > later date. All free software licenses are commercial licenses, by definition. Preventing selling the work, or other commercial use, would make the license terms non-free. So if you choose any free software license this isn't a problem. > Does #3 complicate things, or is fine when including author info? You may be wanting to talk about making the work non-free (proprietary), in which case you're on your own :-) -- \ “My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I | `\ may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not | _o__) believe it.” —Thomas Edison | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list