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Bill,
My initial thought is.... what are the chances that someone will find a
commercial use for this program? But in thinking about it more, I have no
idea how far other contributing authors will take this program, so out of
respect for their future efforts, I guess GPL is the best choice.
Kevin
In lugnet.cad, William R. Ward writes:
> "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Kevin Clague writes:
> > > Hi Don,
> > > I have no idea what license to choose. Do you have a recommendation?
> >
> > Not really. I tend to waver somewhere between the GPL and Public Domain,
> > depending on how long it's been since I've had trouble with piece of
> > closed software. Of the few licences here http://opensource.org/licenses/
> > that I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do like to keep
> > things short and simple if possible.
>
> GPL is the best in terms or preserving the author's rights. Public
> Domain is a bad idea - it means you surrender any rights to the
> software, and people can then basically use it to build their own
> commercial programs and wouldn't owe you anything! With GPL, they
> can't make commercial software out of it without negociating a
> separate license.
>
> --Bill.
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