Hi Stéphane, The names are very much alike (Smalltalk Labs Browser / Smalltalk Labs Browser for blogs) so it's a bit confusing I guess, sorry about that :)
The Apache License is actually quite understandable and not *that* long, so I would still call it simple. That's why I can't agree with you here and still think that the Apache License is a good choice. Sure, it's longer, but far from being as big a mess as the GPL for example. Just for the sake of having a shorter license taking a bigger risk just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. But you're completely fine to think about this however you want of course, I won't try to convice you of my point of view and I'm thankful for your input on this and will keep it in mind if other people should ask about a license change too. I already wrote why I believe that the MIT license might not be a valid license in Germany. That doesn't seem to really be a problem though, I don't want to spread fear or anything, the MIT license has been used in tons of projects all over the world including Germany and I haven't heard about tons of lawsuits yet (I don't know of even just one). Like I said, I used MIT myself before and continue to do so, Smalltalk Labs Browser (not for blogs) is completely licensed under the MIT license and will stay that way. I've even used self written licenses much shorter and of a much lesser quality than the MIT license in closed source software projects with hundred thousands or in one case millions of users and have not been sued once. Choosing the Apache License is my personal choice because it makes me sleep better, I'm not trying to convince anyone to use it too. I had actually planned to release SLBfb under the MIT license but since I used Apache licensed code from Google for a part of the server I had to read up on the Apache license and what I read made me decide to use the Apache License for SLBfb instead. Cheers, Chris On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < [email protected]> wrote: > I confused it with the other browser. :) > So indeed the license for the javascript code does not impact us. >
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