Re: [nyphp-talk] Licensing open source software

2008-01-14 Thread David Krings
Hi! Ton's comments were along the lines of these as well. John Campbell wrote: - get credited (have my name mentioned in code) [snip] Fair enough. Good. - mandate that any changes or improvements are sent to me [snip] Are you kidding? One of the principals of open source is that people

Re: [nyphp-talk] Licensing open source software

2008-01-13 Thread John Campbell
> - get credited (have my name mentioned in code) [snip] Fair enough. > - mandate that any changes or improvements are sent to me [snip] Are you kidding? One of the principals of open source is that people are free to modify the code. Adding such a restriction to modifying the code would be a no

Re: [nyphp-talk] Licensing open source software

2008-01-13 Thread Tom Melendez
Hi David, Items 2 and 3 on your list are not GPL compatible (although, IANAL), but I think you might find Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 close to what you want. It doesn't mandate that people have to give their changes back to you (I don't believe any of the licenses d

[nyphp-talk] Licensing open source software

2008-01-13 Thread David Krings
Hi! I wrote two small PHP functions that allow for easily adding context sensitive help (CSH) calls to MadCap Flare's WebHelp (and potentially others). I am a MadCap MVP and plan on cross-publishing the code on NYPHP-Talk (this list) as well as in the MadCap Flare Forum. Now that I am about to