Re: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
Re: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
- Subject: Re: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
- From: Dov Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:43:44 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
Depends if you want to make money from your app or not. In either case the license that you release your app under can't violate the terms of any of the components included in your app. If you included GPL licensed components – it would be a violation of the GPL license to charge money for your app. See the note from the GPL v2 license below
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
…
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
Most small developers (and a lot of large companies) totally disregard the terms and conditions of the licenses that they include in their products. 99% of the time there is no problem. But a lot of large companies that are going thru acquisitions nowadays are insisting on complete indemnification from IP violations as a condition to the transaction. A recent lawsuit between Oracle and SAP was based on IP violations:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/oracle-awarded-13-billion-in-sap-lawsuit-949
The number of patent trolls out there is only growing. I have to admit my recent experience in dealing with these licensing issues has been eye opening
Dov Rosenberg
From: Klaus Berkling <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:29:43 -0700
To: WebObjects Development <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
Subject: Making code available & license (was Re: Examles from apple webobjects 5.4.3 any good)
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?
kib
"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."
Bruce Cockburn
Klaus Berkling
Web Application Dev. & Systems Analyst
DynEd International, Inc.
www.dyned.com<http://www.dyned.com/> | blog<feed://dyned.dyned.com/users/kberkling/blog/index.rss?> | @kiberkli<http://twitter.com/kiberkli/>
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