Help Selecting License

Alex Rousskov rousskov at measurement-factory.com
Fri Jul 23 20:46:12 UTC 2004


On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Fabian Bastin wrote:

> An interesting starting point (at my opinion) is the Licensing
> Howto, written by Eris S. Raymond:
> http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/Licensing%2DHOWTO.html

IMHO, it would be nice if that useful document was linked from the OSI
web site (as work in progress, I guess).

Note that the document currently does not seem to cover Public Domain
designations (which, IMHO, should be the first consideration when
deciding on legal basis for software).

Thanks,

Alex.



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