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28 Apr, 2009

Choosing an open source licence

In a few weeks we will launch two open source products.
But we want to talk about something else: What license to choose?

We know that we want to:

  • keep in a visibile link in the bottom or in the header of our products
  • we don’t want to allow people to re-package and release the same open source product
  • we want to allow people to make money with these products
  • allow people to modify, edit and contribute.

The simple thought: allow people do pretty much everything but will small restraints.
What’s your experience with open source licenses?

This community already explores this question.
What’s your suggestion for us?

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2 Raspunsuri la "Choosing an open source licence"

1 | Filip

April 29th, 2009 at 11:17 am

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We use the MIT license at jobberBase and it suits us well.
Although we ask people politely to link to jobberBase on their sites,
we don’t want to enforce that.
Also had a problem with a guy who re-packaged the entire code under a different name, but he took it down when we asked him to.

MIT is the most flexible open-source license.

2 | Dan

April 29th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

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“MIT / BSD / Apache 2.0: Do what you want with my code, as long as you give us credit, and try not to associate yourself with us.”

Apache license vs BSD vs MIT here

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