[License-discuss] Obtaining Open Source licence

[Miles Fidelman]

Tonima Ali wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to upload a software code as an opensource software and want to 
> use an open source licence for it. The software is called QT2Decoder, 
> it is an image processing software for post processing of MRI 
> specially designed for brain pathology.
> Can you guide me on how to get an open source licence for it?
>
Your question is unclear:

- if you're trying to USE software written by someone else, it's up to 
the author what license and other terms that they release under - you 
have to contact the copyright owner and negotiate if you want something 
other than their standard license

- if you're the author (as implied by "upload" and the currently empty 
sourceforge repository with what looks like your name attached) - YOU 
decide what license you release the code under, you don't have to "get" 
a license from anyone - if you're looking for the wording of common open 
source licenses (e.g., gpl, Apache) - you might look at:
http://opensource.org/licenses
For more information, you might look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses
https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ (biased toward GPL - but then, they pretty 
much invented open source licenses, so they're entitled"

Miles Fidelman

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