Hi guys, could you please do us all a favour and continue those kind of discussions via private mail, there¹s nothing most of us can or will add to it
Thanks andy On 21.05.08 00:46, "Christopher Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
