Hi PJ, First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer!
There's no correlation between the software you use and the site's policy with regard to default by users in their bartering arrangements. You could develop a site in ASP.NET (proprietary) or in Lua (open source) and, in either case, choose (a) to guarantee your users' bargains will be underwritten by the site; or (b) disclaim all responsibility for the behaviour of your users. So don't depend on the open source license, write a policy statement for your site. > - Do i need to make the source (of the website) opensource to avail of the > licence. If you want to make your site's code open source, that's a separate matter to the policy on default above. As a practical matter, the primary choice among open source licenses is: "liberal" licenses which give the developer the right to do as he pleases with the source (e.g. Apache, MIT, BSD, Mozilla); and licenses which compel the developer to publish code changes if the changed software is redistributed (e.g. LGPL). GPL goes a step farther than LGPL. It's "viral": any code even linked to GPL code is coerced into a GPL license. This property makes it unlikely that the source code will be reused commercially (though the finished system may be, Linux itself is an example). Of course, the above is a potted treatment of a large and complex subject. Once you've picked a license, upload the source to code.google.com or Github or Bitbucket or Sourceforge... Hope this helps, Kevin. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" 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.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
