Re: (slightly OT) Open Source licences? (was: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?)

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 12 Sty, 19:36, "framefri...@gmail.com" <framefri...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> After such a long introduction my question finally arrives: can you
> suggest any open-source licence which could be used in this case ?
> (and maybe in other Ada libraries to be developed)

The C++ programmers have this:

http://www.boost.org/

The license choice was a big issue and after lengthy consultations the
Boost community arrived at this:

http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt

Please read this:

http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html

to learn the rationale for it.

There is nothing that prevents anybody from using it for other
libraries.

Whether this license is good for your particular purpose is entirely
up to you, but if you already find GPL not meeting your requirements
(too much restrictive and preventing wider adoption), then the Boost
license might be the best next match. It is similar in spirit to BSD.

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com