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"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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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) 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 (URL) I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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