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

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