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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.222.9 with SMTP id s9mr1623737yhp.55.1420473378403; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 07:56:18 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.23.208 with SMTP id 74mr13211qgp.23.1420473378387; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 07:56:18 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!bm13no3402056qab.0!news-out.google.com!n9ni76qai.0!nntp.google.com!dc16no4259381qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 07:56:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.108.152.51; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.108.152.51 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: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:56:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2028 X-Received-Body-CRC: 501664669 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24371 Date: 2015-01-05T07:56:18-08:00 List-Id: > OK, I have seen the BSD license before, I will take a closer look at it.= =20 I have read the GPL flame with great interest (as usual, because it seems t= o be a periodic phenomenon), but I think the discussion would not be comple= te if you are left with only two choices. Some time ago the C++ community (yes, the guys everybody hates here and whi= ch happened to do lots of things just right ;-) ) came up with the Boost li= cense, which was explicitly intended to support both open- and closed-sourc= e software. The community that relies on this license is now very large, wh= ich also means that its legal meaning is well established. For detailed wor= ding see here: http://opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0.html --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com