Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott Long
Hello, everybody, I am planning to create a SourceForge project in the near future. I've been working on a project, and it's starting to become complicated enough and functional enough that I'd like to have it hosted somewhere other than my home server. I have two lines of questions. The first is

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
This is going to be a moderately long message, but I believe the license to be one of the more important things to get right You might want to start with the safest license, the GPL. You can always change your mind, or go for a dual-license. Specifically, I do NOT want to use something

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 3, 2003, at 4:21 PM, Scott Long wrote: Hello, everybody, Hi, Scott-- [ ... ] I have briefly skimmed the list of licenses at http://opensource.org/licenses/ and the BSD license looks like it fulfills my conditions. I'm posting to this list to see if my interpretation of the license is

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott Long
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Daniel Carrera wrote: SECOND LINE OF QUESTIONS: The project itself performs actions on the in-core binary images of running processes. It is capable of saving snapshots of the address spaces of running processes to disk. I would like to have clarification whether

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 3, 2003, at 5:22 PM, Scott Long wrote: Imagine that I take a memory snapshot of a running Emacs process. I then send this snapshot to somebody else. If the snapshot is considered a derived work, then I've just made a binary only distribution of Emacs, therefore violating the GPL. This

Re: Which License should I pick?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott Long
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: The difference being, a core file actually contains executable instructions from the original binary on disk. My format is different -- it only contains the DIFFERENCES between what is in memory and what is on disk. So I'm wondering if my