On 02/11/2013 19:07, Joe Kington wrote: > Hi Daniele, > > First off, the FSF uses and endorses a number of non GPL licenses. They > reccomend the Apache license over MIT-style licenses for permissive > cases due to patent issues, but they don't require it. In fact, even > the GNU project has several X11 (the FSF's name for the MIT license) > licensed projects (e.g. Off the top of my head, I know ncurses is both > an official GNU project and is X11-licensed.).
Thank for the info. I knew that the FSF endorses a number of different licenses, but I was under the impression that the only projects for which copyright transfer was in place were under the GPL or LGPL license. I don't know if it makes much sense for other, more permissive, licenses. > However, I'm glad you brought this up. I haven't actually filled out a > copyright transfer form to the FSF. I intended to at one point, but > never did and didn't think about the copyright assignment in the license > header very much. Not doing so, and leaving copyright in the name of any > potential contributors actually makes things quite a bit simpler. Indeed. I believe going the burden of copyright transfer makes sense only for major projects under copyleft licenses. Cheers, Daniele ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
