So, what license do people here prefer?
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this recently, and quite simply can only see: "BSD allows others to steal your code legally".
Thoughts?
So, what license do people here prefer?
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this recently, and quite simply can only see: "BSD allows others to steal your code legally".
Thoughts?
Multi-licensing is another option. So for instance you could offer a choice between using the GPL, BSD, X/MIT and Mozilla licenses, and let people using it use whichever license they prefer.
I think it depends on what kind of program you are writing. There is no "one true license". Most of the time I would use the GPL or LGPL, since I am not a fan of proprietary development in general (but I'm certainly not a hardline free software zealot - I do sometimes use proprietary software if I think it is better than the free equivalent), and don't really like people taking code that I wrote and making proprietary forks. There are some things like certain libraries, or code forked from non-copylefted programs, for which I would use a non-copyleft license, though.