[extropy-chat] Open Source Licensing - help!

[Emlyn]

On 24/07/05, Chris Hibbert <hibbert at mydruthers.com> wrote:
> Getting something hosted on sourceforge is pretty simple.  I'm working
> on open source software for prediction markets,
> (sourceforge.net/projects/zocalo) and it didn't take long to fill out
> the forms.  My software uses the MIT license,
> (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) which is among the most
> open and short licenses.  It allows people to use, re-use, or modify it
> at will.  It does have this clause, which might be enough to satisfy
> your desire for acknowledgment:
> 
>   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> That requires people to include your license with your code if they ship
> it to others, 

I'm not looking for a banner or anything awful, just an attribution
somewhere. Well, that might work. I like the MIT and New BSD licenses
a lot, because they are short and sweet.

I guess you are right, it applies to an inclusion of binaries or
compiled in source in a 3rd party product. Cool. I might go that way
then, with New BSD probably (just so that the marketing clause stays
in).

-- 
Emlyn

http://emlynoregan.com   * blogs * music * software *