Hey there, BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved. Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS means generally an accepted free software license or and accepted open-source license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses like the GPL-style licenses force the code to remain open if an entity modifies the source _and_ redistributes the subsequent binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus sometimes seen as more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of freedom (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel that BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer.
If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with (L)GPL2 (L)GPL3 Apache MIT BSD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences If you want to free it to the four corners of the earth but not have it FOSS then public domain it - certain high profile pieces of software are public domain (Sqlite I think?) but not many. Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jenna Fox <a...@creativepony.com> wrote: > A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a > software license on it, so I guess it's not technically FOSS yet. What > licenses are good? BSD? Public Domain? > > > — > Jenna > > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >
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