Thanks for the feedback, Dmitrijs. I'm actually taking my cues from jQuery which is dual licensed MIT/GPL and merely says:
> /*! > * jQuery JavaScript Library v1.4.2 > * http://jquery.com/ > * > * Copyright 2010, John Resig > * Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses. > * http://jquery.org/license > > http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js However, I just added the MIT license block in addition to the GPL and MIT license URLs. Good that you thought of those without Internet access. More on why dual licensing is a good idea: http://benalman.com/news/2010/02/on-licensing-my-code/ Thanks! Weston On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com > wrote: > On 11 May 2010 19:58, Weston Ruter <westonru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually, it has to be open source because we don't have a paid GitHub > > account :-) But you're right, I added a copyright block: > > > http://github.com/openscriptures/api/commit/a731bdd68b84415f22d3a2d3a035e6ad827eaf28 > > > > Dual licensed MIT/GPL. > > > > Kind of pointless =) MIT is compatible with GPL and MIT is less > restrictive =) so *everyone* will choose MIT =) > > Plus you need to think about people without internet access who might > receive your software. (or have internet access but live in a > prosecuted country and get your software e.g. via printout in a > letter). > > So actually it would have been absolutely amazing to have this header > (taken from http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) > > > ----8<----- > > Copyright (C) 2010 OpenScriptures.org > > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a > copy > of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to > deal > in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the > rights > to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell > copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is > furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in > all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR > IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE > AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER > LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING > FROM, > OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN > THE SOFTWARE. > > > ----8<------ > > > Thanks! > > Weston > > > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs > > <dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 11 May 2010 17:32, Weston Ruter <westonru...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I'm working on a Python module for representing osisIDs (works, > >> > passages, > >> > IDs, and refs). I think I've got the OsisWork class baked pretty well > >> > (at > >> > least for reading/parsing), and I would appreciate your thoughts: > >> > http://github.com/openscriptures/api/blob/master/osis.py#L122 > >> > > >> > >> Currently I can only assume that it is proprietary software =) > >> > >> Please include copyright and license at the top of the file. > >> > >> Copyright (C) YYYY Name Lastname > >> > >> and boiler-plate for one of the OSI / FSF approved licenses. > >> > >> I recommend you to choose between Expat, 3-Clause BSD or LGPL / GPL > >> licenses depending on how much freedom you would like to grant =) > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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