There are different commonly used license types for TW plugins. I did some comments below every item. The comments are my opinion, which may be wrong :)
My opinion is, if you use a more liberal license, the chance to be adopted is higher. TiddlyWiki and many plugins (from Osmosoft) are BSD licensed. Several 3rd party plugins, including mine, are a type of CreativeCommons CC-, wich imo is quite nice due to the configurator. So you can start with a strict license, and later on make it more liberal, without compatibility problems. If I think my plugins should be able to be included into the core some time, they need to be at least BSD. ==== most liberal single licenses first: MIT [1] license. The users basically can do what they want. The copyright notice "shall" be included. imo the important stuff is "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND" which keeps you safe. BSD [2] Similar to MIT but the copyright notice needs to be included. SOFTWRAE "AS IS " ... CC-BY [3] This is the least rescricted of the CC-type licenses which have a nice configurator [4]. All of them may be appropriate as long as you "Allow modifications of your work?". If someone sets modifications to "no", I personally think it is unusable in a TW context. The more restrictions you add, the less "attractive" the plugin is. GPL type [5][6] They are all quite long and restrictive, compared to those above. Since ==quote from [6]== The GPL is the first copyleft license for general use, which means that derived works can only be distributed under the same license terms. ==end quote== This forces big companies to use the same terms for there modified sources. So they need to give the source back to the community. Which is good for the community. But it forces you to use the same license if you use only parts of a plugin. In my opinion GPL for TW plugins is overkill. =========== dual or more licenses like jQuery stuff [7] Is a very liberal license, since you can choose, which single license fits to your project and use just that _one_. == quote from source == /*! * jQuery JavaScript Library v1.7.2 * http://jquery.com/ * * Copyright 2011, John Resig * Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses. * http://jquery.org/license * * Includes Sizzle.js * http://sizzlejs.com/ * Copyright 2011, The Dojo Foundation * Released under the MIT, BSD, and GPL Licenses. * * Date: Wed Mar 21 12:46:34 2012 -0700 */ === have fun! mario [1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php/ [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ [4] http://creativecommons.org/choose/ [5] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL#Compatibility_and_multi-licensing [7] http://jquery.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
