Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-18 Thread Brian Leach
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: 18 October 2010 00:38 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Free software licence On 17/10/10 12:13, Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-18 Thread DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com)
Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. Has anyone any insight to share on this? Confused Brian This might be of interest - http://civiccommons.com/2010/10/roi-of-open/ Cheers,

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-18 Thread Larry Hiscock
Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. Has anyone any insight to share on this? Confused Brian Have you looked at the Creative Commons licensing models?

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/10/10 16:52, Brian Leach wrote: Wol/Steve Thanks for the responses. I don't want the GPL as it's too restrictive - it effectively prevents anyone using the software in the context of anything that isn't GPL'ed, and I don't want to restrict that. For example, a plug-in to get SB+

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Brian - I have software published under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). It's a simple license just a little more wordy than MIT that allows other developers to do whatever they want with my code including distribution of source or object, free or for-fee. It differs from the perhaps too

[U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Brian Leach
All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. That way, anyone can download and use it and hopefully people can choose to add to the library of plug-ins that are used to analyse specific entities - an example might be some plug-ins to

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Steve Romanow
On 10/17/2010 7:13 AM, Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. That way, anyone can download and use it and hopefully people can choose to add to the library of plug-ins that are used to analyse specific

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Steve Romanow
On 10/17/2010 7:13 AM, Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. That way, anyone can download and use it and hopefully people can choose to add to the library of plug-ins that are used to analyse specific

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Steve Romanow
This looks interesting http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/how-to-pick-an-open-source-license-part-2/131?tag=mantle_skin;content ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Steve Romanow
On 10/17/2010 7:13 AM, Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. That way, anyone can download and use it and hopefully people can choose to add to the library of plug-ins that are used to analyse specific

Re: [U2] Free software licence

2010-10-17 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/10/10 12:13, Brian Leach wrote: All I've been planning for a while to release my system scanning tools (mvScan) as free/open software. That way, anyone can download and use it and hopefully people can choose to add to the library of plug-ins that are used to analyse specific