Alex Tweedly wrote: > I primarily developed it for one project, which was successful > enough, but had no need to develop it any further. Without either > beta testers or any on-going use by myself, it didn't seem quite > ready for release (clearly not as a commercial project), so it's > just been sitting on the shelf. > > I'd be happy to contribute it under some GPL license (so long as that > lets me retain rights to use it (the orginal) in commercial products > if I ever choose to), and to participate in any on-going project that > develops. Let me know if there is any interest in that (either here > on the list, or by direct email - I rarely get time to look at the > forums).
Just about anything other than explicit transfer to the public domain retains your copyright as the creator of the work.
While I think the GPL is a very good fit for projects where sharing is a goal, it does prohibit use within proprietary works.
Use within proprietary works could be supported by allowing users to choose to obtain it under a separate proprietary license, perhaps even for a fee, as LiveCode does.
And there's also the LGPL for components which allow certain usage within proprietary works, or other licenses considered GPL-compatible like Apache v2 and X11. If you have time on your hands, the Free Software Foundation has a list of popular licenses noting their compatibility with GPL v3, which LiveCode Community uses:
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