Whatever you like. This is your effort, your code, and it is owned by you.

You should make an informed decision but there's no recommendation to be
found (from a node perspective).

Personally you might find interesting information and opinions, but that's
just that

The last thing i read that was interesting about licenses was Zed Shaw
about using GPL.

Nuno


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Jake Verbaten <[email protected]> wrote:

> The vast majority of the community uses MIT licences.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Forrest L Norvell 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, David Herron <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm curious about the preferred license for modules that are distributed
>>> through the npmjs.org repository
>>
>>
>> We discussed this a bit at NodeConf summer camp this year, and the
>> consensus was pretty strongly in favor of BSD or MIT licenses, or at least
>> pretty liberal, commercial-use friendly licenses (including the Perl and
>> Apache licenses).
>>
>> In particular is there any legal barrier to using GPL in such modules?
>>>
>>> As far as I understand it, the legal barrier would be whether a module
>>> which uses a GPL'd module is derivative of that module.  I don't think that
>>> it would be, but then the LGPL license does exist for a reason.
>>>
>>
>> Isaac can speak to this more authoritatively than I can, but npm itself
>> prescribes / proscribes no particular licenses. You could attach GPL3
>> licenses to your modules if you wanted, but uptake would probably be
>> hampered, especially if there were some kind of associated Canonical-style
>> contributor's agreement. Node is still pretty much the wild west, and it's
>> tough to say if today's random hack project might not become tomorrow's
>> startup idea, and I think most devs want to keep their options open.
>>
>> F
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