On Saturday 23 August 2008, Jim Hartley wrote: > From what you say, is it really worth using the GPL on something this > small? Does it contain anything novel that you want to protect from > being used in a proprietary package? I like the GPL, and I use it for > some things, but I wouldn't bother for a simple bash script.
On the other hand, if you examine the various scripts used to install many Debian and Ubuntu packages (look in /var/lib/dpkg/info), you'll see that many of them contain references to the GPL. ;-) > Something like the BSD license is much simpler. Whatever license you use, > putting the appropriate boilerplate as comments should do it OK. I don't think license choice is easy nor clear, by virtue of it being a common point of argument and lengthy discussion... of which I'll try to avoid now. :-P -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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