Yes, I once used Apache 2.0 but now I'm thinking New BSD is the way to go. And one of the main reasons I read was that, especially to non- java people, many see "BSD" and immediately understand what that's going to be. It's also easier when more and more licenses are becoming BSD. And it supports multi-license well.
On Aug 27, 7:50 am, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: > BSD all the way > On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks ! That's indeed the kind of accessible explanations I am > > looking for. > > > What would be the logical choice for a care-free open source project ? > > Everybody can use it, modify it, bla bla bla and the usage is your > > sole responsability. > > > On Aug 26, 1:55 pm, Mike Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jan > > >> OSS Watch provides guidance albeit it is geared to helping the UK > >> academic community: > > >>http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ > > >>http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ipr.xml > > >> Hope that helps. > > >> Cheers > >> Mike > > >> 2009/8/26 Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>: > > >>> Putting a project on Kenai requires the choice of an open source > >>> license > >>> scheme. In Netbeans you'll get a combobox with the names. And if > >>> I'm not > >>> mistaken it can show you the licence terms at http:// > >>> opensource.org/. > >>> I guess, if I were a jurist of some sorts these terms would be > >>> without > >>> question. Alas, I'm not. And I could certainly appreciate some > >>> kind of > >>> layman's explanation to the various schemes, differences, for which > >>> application types, etc... > >>> Does somebody know where I might look for these ? > >>> Thanks ! > >>> Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
