Most of my projects are like Stephen's (a) scenario. I typically want a non-copyleft/permissive license for these. In such cases I have usually followed the FSF's advice and used Apache 2.0. However...
Recently I read the following blog post by Kyle Mitchell, a practicing IP lawyer: Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD. https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/03/09/Deprecation-Notice.html Kyle and a few other coding/IP-law types recently formed Blue Oak Council to provide guidance specifically on permissive (non-copyleft) open source licenses. As part of this they have designed their own "model" permissive open source license: https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0 I know it's extremely new, but (though not a lawyer myself) I find the rationale behind their plain-English model license appealing. I'll be strongly considering it in the future. I thought it was worth including in this thread. It was discussed on HN a few days ago, with some additional comments from the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347797 On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 5:04:10 AM UTC-5, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > > Hi, > > I sometimes see Racket packages on PLaneT or Github, but lack a licence. > > I don’t feel I can redistribute or fork abandoned code if it lacks a > licence. (I can give an example of an 11yo abandoned project that I’d love > to fork but can’t because it lacks a licence) > > With that in mind- what licences should be used when making code available > on the package repository/github in the following situations: > > a) general purpose library that I am happy for the broader community of > evelopers to use without restraint - but is unlikely to ever meet to be > included in Racket e.g. I have an number checksum validator (UK NHS ID > number) > - is dual licence Apache/MIT appropriate? or is it completely up to me. > > b) library, tool or DrRacket plugin that may(or may not) become part of > the Racket distribution > - is dual licence Apache/MIT appropriate or should it also be LGPL? > > c) anything else? > > Kind regards, > > Stephen > > > -- > Kind regards, > Stephen > -- > Ealing (London), UK > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
