Le 11/18/2013 12:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge a écrit :
On 11/18/2013 12:20 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On 18 November 2013 17:13, Pierre Racine <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm a license ignorant.
Release it into the public domain and
include a statement that you release all rights
adding "No rights reserved".
Best regards,
+1 on this because it is the most friendly and can be used by everyone
regardless of license that they are using. It absolutely has no license
conflicts.
Although I'm a very big fan of public domain, it has its own limitations.
For instance, some countries (randomly picked: France) do not allow one to
declare its creation in the public domain. This is something that's granted
from its nature (e.g. a representative speech or a math formula) or that is
gained after a couple of decades after the death of the author (which is
quite unlikely for PostGIS).
Instead, I would much favor explicit licenses, such as the much simple
(2-clauses) BSD [1] or the Creative Common Zero [2]. Both of them give the
user the maximum flexibility and make sure there is no license conflict
afterwards. The BSD, my favorite, is also super easy to read and understand.
Sincerely,
Mathieu.
[1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
[2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Best,
-Steve
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