I am trying to understand the COns and Pros between BSD, MIT and LGPL So I will choose one of that by the end of the week when beta will be officially released.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure how much my opinion matters here, but a lot of times, I am > not allowed to touch GPL code, especially AGPL code for a business project. > The legal department avoids (A)GPL like the plague. There are just too many > gotchas with it, whether real or imaginary. They much prefer I use MIT or > BSD, and have started to come around to LGPL. But there is no way they will > let me use anything more restrictive. Our legal department can't be the > only one in the corporate world that feels the same way. > > So if you want real businesses to touch code, it has to be LGPL or better > (less restrictive). I believe this was one of the reasons web2py is using > LGPL now. But this is your project, and a great one at that! So feel free > to license it however you like, just be aware of the adoption issues. > > -- > mail from:GoogleGroups "web2py-developers" mailing list > make speech: web2py-develop...@googlegroups.com > unsubscribe: web2py-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > details : http://groups.google.com/group/web2py-developers > the project: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/ > official : http://www.web2py.com/ > -- Bruno Rocha [http://rochacbruno.com.br]