[extropy-chat] Open Source Licensing - help!

[Samantha Atkins]

Oops.  Make that the "new" BSD license.

-s

On Jul 23, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> It is not that hard really.  It sounds like the old BSD license  
> would be sufficient for your needs.  No extra hoops.
>
> - samantha
>
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 4:37 AM, Emlyn wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought some people here might know their open source stuff.
>>
>> I'm putting together a simple .net library for monitoring files for
>> changes at the moment. I've written a bit about it at the bottom of
>> the post, but it's really quite banal. The point of doing it for  
>> me is
>> in learning how the open source world works, and the services
>> available to its citizens.
>>
>> I was hoping to host it on SourceForge, but found that it's not  
>> just a
>> matter of getting an account and throwing a project at it. You  
>> have to
>> know all kinds of difficult detail such as the exact open source
>> license conditions that you want to release the code under, detail
>> about what the project is, etc etc. It appears that a human moderator
>> then assesses your project for worthiness, before it is allowed on
>> SourceForge.
>>
>> Firstly, can anyone advise me on the open source licenses? What I'm
>> trying to achieve is to put useful code out there (give back to the
>> net!), and also to create the beginning of a reputation, or at least
>> to find out what it might take. So I'm happy for people to use my  
>> code
>> for commercial products without paying me any money, but I guess I
>> want some kind of acknowledgement.
>>
>> What I'd like is to require users of the library to include some kind
>> of acknowledgement in their product, even just in a readme file, or
>> maybe show a logo for the library in an about box or something
>> similar. I'd like people to be able to use it in closed source,
>> commercial projects without the possibility of compromising their IP
>> (ie: I don't want to open-source infect them). Just the
>> acknowledgement. So far I've looked at GPL (no! too ideology bound,
>> and unusable by closed source people), LGPL (still a worry, I think
>> closed source people would still steer clear), and BSD (a bit too
>> open, I want some form of acknowledgement that the library is being
>> used in a product). As for derived works, I guess they need to be
>> bound to carry the same license conditions as the original library,
>> I'm not clear here.
>>
>> So does anyone have any advice?
>>
>> Also, does anyone know if the bar is set higher than I will be  
>> able to
>> jump, regarding project approval on SourceForge? Is it the right  
>> place
>> to host a new tiny open source project, or is there something better?
>>
>> What the library is:
>> The library is a simple .net library for monitoring files for  
>> changes.
>> It will be able to support different paradigms (append-only log  
>> files,
>> text files where changes appear anywhere (like source code), binary
>> files that have internal updates and might grow or shrink (like
>> database files), etc). I've got a bunch of stuff to base on it, like
>>  - a realtime viewer for log files with user definable filtering,
>> colouring, based on regular expressions,
>>  - a windows service that can monitor log files, again with user
>> definable filtering, alerts, etc, based on regular expressions
>>  - maybe a file replication facility for any of these types of files
>>  - maybe a source control system based on the diff capabilities of  
>> the library
>>  - etc etc etc
>> I know these kinds of products already exist, but I can't find open
>> source, .net based code for this functionality. File change  
>> monitoring
>> seems really low tech, but you can build some really strong higher
>> level functionality on it, gaining robustness and a loose-coupling
>> that I really favour in enterprise applications.
>>
>> -- 
>> Emlyn
>>
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