On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Edward Blake <edward.bl...@rovoscape.com>wrote:
> Right now I stuck a GPL license as a path of least resistance simply > because all the other Tortoise are GPL. I've noticed since that Veracity's > is Apache licensed so I figure why not make this permissively licensed as > well. Currently I can go either way, I believe, since it is so far written > from scratch, but BSD and permissive licenses looks to be the preferred > license in the Fossil community. > My 0.02 Euros: in my experience people don't tend to get too riled up about specific licenses for _apps_ (provided the license in question is "open"), but do tend to get religious about them over _libraries_. For example, i can't imagine there would be a split in the fossil community if it suddenly went GPL (whereas there would be a huge split if sqlite3, being a widespread library, did that). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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