On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:28:40AM -0700, Rob Kirkpatrick wrote: -> I read a bit about licenses but never understood the long-term pros and cons -> of each of the open source ones. Does GPL qualify as a default if you don't -> have a compelling reason to use another? There has been a bit of chatter on -> the testing in python mailing list about the Pylint guys changing their -> license to let others use their code, so I guess some of this is not fixed -> in stone...
Jenny, you'll retain copyright, so at least under American law you can change the license whenever you want. I would suggest BSD, which is really non-restrictive; I believe Chris is planning to change pygr over to BSD as well. Either is fine by me. The "con" of GPL is that some people and companies are frightened of it, because it's contaminatory (using GPL software can affect the licensing requirements of software you develop on top of it). On the flip side, BSD contains no "protection" against commercial usage, so if you're worried about companies taking your code, using it, and never giving anything back to the community, you should go with GPL. cheers, --t -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" 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/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
