Re: [Zope] ZPL and GPL: What should one consider when choosing a license?

2007-12-22 Thread Andrew Milton
+---[ Ross Patterson ]-- | [snip] | code is in the first place. I also want anyone who forks my code to | credit me and other contributors as authors of the code they forked. It is this precise requirement that makes the 3-clause BSD license GPL incompatible. | I | ha

Re: [Zope] ZPL and GPL: What should one consider when choosing a license?

2007-12-21 Thread David Pratt
Hi Ross. The ZPL is a brief and concise license. It is clear on providing attribution of authors and copyright. The other requirements it imposes are fairly minimal. Other than this, it permits the code to be used in virtually any manner. The components in the Zope repository upon which Zope an

Re: [Zope] ZPL and GPL: What should one consider when choosing a license?

2007-12-21 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Ross Patterson wrote: Unfortunately, the comment by Chris McDonough mentioned in the latter doesn't seem to be accessible any more. I'd love to read it. It said: """ I don't think Plone is "bad" because it uses the GPL. I do think it's a pain in the balls to h

Re: [Zope] ZPL and GPL: What should one consider when choosing a license?

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Gentry
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Ross Patterson wrote: > credit me and other contributors as authors of the code they forked. I > have a slight preference to allow proprietary code to depend on my code > without having to open source their code. I definitely want commercial > entities to be allowed to sell p