Matt Seitz wrote:
What do you think of the GPL? While it would allow commercial use without your permission, it would require them to hand over their source code. That's usually enough to stop companies from taking undue advantage of your work.I'll consider it. I'll read carefully the GPL license and any other OSI-approved license as soon as I'll have the time. For now, I made my project subject to the MPL. That's a laudable goal. I'm not aware of a current license that calls for this, but you could add this requirement to an existing license. However, I think you would need to be sure that the only requirement is that notice be sent to a certain address, either physical or e'mail. If you require that you approve of the new project, that would be contrary to a basic principle of open source: derived works do not require the explicit permission of the original author, just conformance with a predefined set of terms.I'll never thought to force people requiring my approval... nor I think it would be a good strategy, since this first release of the extension required only a few hours to be developed (6 months working 1 hour/week... this means something like 30 hours of working time). This small amount of time, for sure, will not stop people from creating a similar project from scratch if needed. An email notice is enough. I'll look for the possibility to add this requirement to an existing OSI-approved license. |
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