Why would I care if they did that?  

—
Jenna


On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:19 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

> You could read Stallman's CopyLeft idea http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ to 
> prevent unscrupulous individual from turning your code into a profitable 
> product (I think) - DaveE
>  
> > This is very helpful! I don't really mind though. Maybe public domain is 
> > best. I'm not a big believer in copyright.  
> >  
> > —
> > Jenna
> >  
> >  
> > On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:57 PM, Anthony Durity wrote:
> >  
> > > 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 
> > > (mailto: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
> > > >  
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