Which License should I pick?

[Scott Long]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> 
> > This is going to be a moderately long message, but I believe the 
> > license to be one of the more important things to get right
> 
> You might want to start with the "safest" license, the GPL.  You can 
> always change your mind, or go for a dual-license.

Upon some consideration, I think this is the best thing to do for the time 
being. As you say, I can dual-license it in the future if necessary. I 
think I'll place a conspicuous note on the website telling people that 
they can make inquiries as to alternate licensing options if they want to 
use it in a commercial product.

Like you say, it's good to keep as many options open as possible, and it's 
hard to go back on a licensing decision if it's too broad.

My primary concern is to avoid the kind of mess that happened over on LKML 
the other day, with some pretty heated argumentation over binary kernel 
modules in Linux. I have plenty of important things in my life to be 
ideological about, and software licensing isn't one of those.

Thanks to everyone who responded, you were of great help.

Scott Long


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