On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 12:02 +0300, Maxim wrote: > I plan to make my CMS based on .Net/Mono (ORM engine + CMS core + CMS > modules) an open source solution. > Could anyone give me a consultation for choosing proper licenses (few > simple questions)?
I'm not aware of any papers to help with this choice (though they may well exist), but the simple mapping is typically: You want to permit proprietary use of your code and they don't need to contribute anything back to you --> MIT/X11 or BSD w/o advertising clause. Example: Mono class library. You want to ensure that changes to your code are still accessible to you, regardless of who makes the changes --> GPL. Examples: Linux, most applications. You want to ensure that changes to *your* code are still accessible to you, but you don't care if your code is intermingled with proprietary code that you will never access --> LGPL. Examples: GTK+, many shared libraries. - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
