by jcbollinger » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:24 pm
Inasmuch as there are about to be (more) artifacts emerging from this effort in which there exist intellectual property rights, this seems a good time to discuss licensing. I am working under the assumption that an open-source license of some flavor will be used, but that leaves a lot of latitude. If anyone other than me contributes code (which I certainly hope will happen) then it will be much easier to have started with the right license than to change licenses later.
Supposing that an open-source license is used, the main contenders are, to my mind, GNU GPL v3, Apache v2, or a BSD-like license. Potentially, the documentation could be released under a separate license, which might be the GNU FDL v1.3 or some flavor of Creative Commons license.
Thoughts?
John
Inasmuch as there are about to be (more) artifacts emerging from this effort in which there exist intellectual property rights, this seems a good time to discuss licensing. I am working under the assumption that an open-source license of some flavor will be used, but that leaves a lot of latitude. If anyone other than me contributes code (which I certainly hope will happen) then it will be much easier to have started with the right license than to change licenses later.
Supposing that an open-source license is used, the main contenders are, to my mind, GNU GPL v3, Apache v2, or a BSD-like license. Potentially, the documentation could be released under a separate license, which might be the GNU FDL v1.3 or some flavor of Creative Commons license.
Thoughts?
John