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Subject: Re: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
From: John Huss <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:41:21 -0500

Read this. Here's a snippet:

"Two years later, we are nearing 100,000 projects hosted on Google Code. The trend around licensing is obvious: GPLv2/GPLv3 represent 42.6% of the projects, and Apache is 25.8%. MIT, BSD, and LGPL are at about 8% each, Artistic at 3.5%, and MPL 1.1 at a mere 2.7%. This follows my own observation about how people license their projects. If they are advocates of Free Software, they will choose GPL; advocates of Open Source will choose Apache (a more modern and thorough permissive license, compared to BSD or MIT). And this is exactly what I recommend to people: choose GPLv3 or Apache v2 based on your personal philosophy."

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:37 AM, David LeBer <email@hidden> wrote:

On 2011-05-12, at 11:32 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

>
> Le 2011-05-12 à 11:29, Klaus Berkling a écrit :
>
>> I have a conference app that's nearly ready to make public as an example app, I just have to remove some information specific to the conference it was developed for.
>> It does events, sessions, invitations, email notifications, etc.
>>
>> Having not done this before, what's a good license to make it available under?
>
> Depends of if you want contributions back or not. If you want contributions back, GPLv2, if not, BSD or MIT.

If you are hoping that your code actually gets used, I would recommend the latter two. Many companies view any variant of the GPL as being poison and will avoid it at all costs.

Obviously if you have strong religious/political views in favour of the GPL then disregard the above.

>
> Could have used your app for WOWODC :-)
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