Hi everybody! After considerable effort, I am almost ready to release
my first program for Linux, free to the public, and I'd like to do it
the right way. It's just a simple bash script for disc cataloging, only
200 lines and probably not as good as something most of you could put
together in an hour, but it does do something useful, and it's entirely
my work. What's the best way to handle the legalities on this? Should
I release it under the GPL, or some other license, or what? And what
exactly should I do? The page http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html says
that to release it under the GPL, I need to put the following
boilerplate into it:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Is just putting that boilerplate as a comment near the top of my script
sufficient? What would you advise? Thanks very much in advance!
Adam Rubin
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