On Sep 1 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 31 12:48, Warren Young wrote: > > Lacking any recommendation, I would have gone with some CC variant. > > I'll look into FAL first now. > > > > If it turns out that I still like CC better, I'll check for GPL > > compatibility. I can already rule out all the "Attribution" > > variants, for the same reason 4-clause BSD is incompatible, right? > > BSD 4-clause is really not ok. What's ok is a license which grants the > right to copy, yada, yada, yada, if the license doesn't require us to > add the attribution to all the affected boilerplates. > > I'm not an expert in attribution requirements, but in our case that > means, if you choose some attribution license, it should be one which > allows us to keep the attribution in the sources only. For setup.exe, > for instance, that would be the setup.exe CONTRIBUTORS file, and I would > add you to the affected ChangeLog entries. There would be no "(C) for > the icon art: Warren Young" in the splash screen. > > Having said that, you would get that for free with the GPL anyway :)
Reminder to self: If Warren chooses a non-GPL license, add a matching license file to the setup sources. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
