I've been looking at this carefully, and it boils down to a couple of choices:

New BSD (simple, direct, but a bit vague)

Or

Apache License 2.0.

The nice part of the AL is that its language is quite clear about what means 
what, and specifically what is being granted, whereas the BSD license is 
relying upon a lot of 'implied' license of patents and whatnot.

The AL also directly limits liability-always a good thing.


Unless someone can give me a significantly good reason to rethink this, I'd say 
we should go with the AL 2.0 for all the code we create.

Shallow-forks of other projects should maintain the licenses of their upstream 
originators.

G


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