From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.185.16 with SMTP id cm16mr72455639icb.6.1420476795962; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:53:15 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.40.166 with SMTP id y6mr9473obk.34.1420476795877; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:53:15 -0800 (PST) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h15no21364309igd.0!news-out.google.com!h6ni16060igv.0!nntp.google.com!h15no36671898igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 08:53:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2602:306:3784:5b10:495:64af:544e:b9b7; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 2602:306:3784:5b10:495:64af:544e:b9b7 References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad> <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: What is the best license to use for open source software? From: David Botton Injection-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:53:15 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:191680 Date: 2015-01-05T08:53:15-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, January 5, 2015 10:56:19 AM UTC-5, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > OK, I have seen the BSD license before, I will take a closer look at it= .=20 >=20 > I have read the GPL flame=20 No one is flaming the GPL. Most of us (but not all) use it and are happy wi= th it. > Some time ago the C++ community (yes, the guys everybody hates here and w= hich happened to do lots of things just right ;-) ) Now that is flamebait if I've ever heard it ;) > came up with the Boost license, which was explicitly intended to support = both open- and closed-source software. The community that relies on this li= cense is now very large, which also means that its legal meaning is well es= tablished. For detailed wording see here: >=20 > http://opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0.html I will take a look, but I've generally been happy with GPL or GMGPL and it = carries my intent. But yes the muddy waters in recent times may mean fresh = looks at other options in order. David Botton