How do I choose a licence

Bani borboleta at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 02:07:42 UTC 2009


That's not true. It points to New BSD License and Apache licenses as well.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Aaron Aichlmayr <waterfoul at gmail.com>wrote:

>  btw as far as I can tell this wizzard only points to gpl or lgpl
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> John Cowan wrote:
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> dirk dierickx scripsit:
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>  Bruce Perens had a nice article about this, you can read it at:
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3803101/Bruce-Perens-How-Many-Open-Source-Licenses-Do-You-Need.htm
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> indeed there is too much choice, it seems. the good news is that it
> can be reduced to 3 licenses.
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>  I think that's too small a number, though I basically agree.
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>  On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 00:22 -0600, Aaron Aichlmayr wrote:
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>  With the plentitude of licences out there how do I choose the one
> that is right for me? I am making a new php application and would
> like to stick to an open source licence on the approved list but
> don't know half of what I'm looking at.
>
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>  Plug:  My entirely unofficial license wizard can be found athttp://www.ccil.org/~cowan/floss <http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan/floss> .  May it help anyone looking for a
> license choose wisely.
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