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 >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
