What is the best license for a distribution such as a LEAF Project?
I was considering the MIT License myself, and find it probably
matches my goals best, though I'm not yet certain.
Also, can you really "license" a distribution anyway? It's really
made up of all the other programs, and they have their own licenses.
Could a MIT-Licensed distribution contain GNU-Licensed binaries in
it? Doesn't this complicate things?
The MIT License is supposedly equivalent to the newly-modified BSD
License - which now has the advertizing clause removed.
The MIT License is validated by the Open Source Initiative as a
license compatible with "Open Source," thus allowing the licensor to
use these words along with the license:
This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.
Several other licenses are valid, including the BSD License, the MIT
License, the GNU License, the Artistic License, and quite a few
others.
Anybody have comments or ideas?
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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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