[gobolinux-devel] Licensing

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:52:00 +1200
"Michael Homer" <michael at gobolinux.org> wrote:

> To my knowledge, we have acks from me, Jonas, Lucas, Hisham, André,
> and Carlo, which covers most of the code, but we still need them from
> Dan, Guillherme, Rafael, MJ, and Aitor. Also from anybody who's
> contributed a copyrightable patch. If we can get that I will go
> through and put proper license headers on the files.

I sent a couple of patches a long time ago, and I'm OK with GPL2/2+.

> 
> The idea of setting up a formal organisation, and possibly doing
> copyright assignment to that, was also raised, but I think shelved for
> the moment. It would be good to get an idea of how people would feel
> about that as well.

If I had to choose a license, I'd go with ISC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license).  IMHO, licensing became pretty counter-productive nowadays, in such a way that people might spend more time dealing with licensing issues than coding.  Again, IMHO.


-- 
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
rnsanchez at wait4.org                 http://rnsanchez.wait4.org

  "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."
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