[License-discuss] [License-review] Coherent Open Source - Getting underway next Friday

[Thorsten Glaser]

Bruce Perens via License-discuss dixit:

>if you are making something that you want everyone to use, you would use a
>gift style license. The BSD or Apache, for example. These are useful for a
>reference implementation of a standard, or a library function which you
>want everyone to copy and do your way.

<advertisement>The MirOS Licence (MirBSD) is even useful to use for
both the specification and implementation, as it was specifically
made with this in mind: it uses “work” where all the other licences
use the term “software”.</advertisement>

SCNR,
//mirabilos
-- 
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :)  -- Ted Unangst über *fs