Hi Mike, if you are leaning towards the LGPL you may want to consider the Mozilla Public License as well. Both licenses are similar in spirit but the MPL makes code mixing with differently licensed projects easier (Point 4 in your list).
For license details see https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License. A brief discussion about the differences between LGPL and MPL is available here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/221365/mozilla-public-license-mpl-2-0-vs-lesser-gnu-general-public-license-lgpl-3-0 Best, Oli On 11/08/14 10:34, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting I'm getting near to open sourcing a Django project and have to choose an appropriate license. Can anyone help me choose? I have settled on the following requirements ... 1. Project source must be freely available for end users to view and download and modify and further distribute to others 2. But if user modified source is distributed the modified source must be freely available for others to view and download and modify and be subject to the identical license as the project source 3. However, if the user modified source is kept in-house and not further distributed the changed source may be kept private or offered back to the project as a patch at the whim of that user. 4. Project (and user modified) source may be combined with proprietary software but the project (or user mofified) source component remains subject to the same license. It cannot be distributed as a combined whole under any other license than the project license. 5. But it can be distributed as a combined whole with proprietary software provided the project (or user modified) source component is freely available for end users to view and download and further distribute to others under the project license even if the proprietary component is not. BTW, Django doesn't require that my project use the Django license and of course I won't be distributing Django. I'm leaning towards the LGPL but would appreciate feedback from anyone with contrary views. Thanks Mike _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
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