On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Chrilith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to open this subject to everyone. Here are the proposals for
> WebApp.Net licensing:
>
> - BSD
> - AGPLv3
>
> Let me know what you think of both and what you prefer. I'd like to
> close this subject tomorrow.
>

I've been involved in the licensing decision on a number of open source
projects, and there is no ideal license, each has issues. Typically the
choice is one that is compatible with other related tools, so SynchroEdit
was licensed dual Mozilla Public License and LGPL, as other related projects
used those licenses. Oddly, GPL is sometimes the best if you wish to profit
from your source code (as companies will sometimes pay to avoid it),
however, unless the project is big it will limit adoption.

New BSD is the easiest and allows for the most flexibility and use with
other open source licenses, as well as easy adoption by corporations who
have to avoid GPL. So for broadest deployment, new BSD is the best. That is
why we chose BSD for iUI -- we favored deployment and ease of use by both
commercial and non-commercial websites, and easy integration into other open
source apps that might be able to make use of iUI.

-- Christopher Allen

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