[retroforth] Re: Copyright law and the public domain
- From: Charles Childers <charles.childers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:58:03 -0500
On 1/20/06, aprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <aprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would suggest that the GPL is well understood and now has court tests
> behind it. Another possibility is a Creative Commons licence
> http://creativecommons.org/.
I have a dislike of the GPL (and LGPL) in that they require that the
derivatives be distributed under the same license. This for me at
least, is a restriction that I've tried to avoid in the programs I
release as open-source.
The Creative Commons licenses aren't intended to apply to software.
They do have a "wrapper" for the GPL v2 though.
> Both are probably better than excerpting bits from something else. In both
> cases you could probably hope to be supported by the EFF or CC should you
> run into problems.
>
> :)
This is a good point. The other option I've been considering is using
the straightforward BSD or MIT/X11 License. This could be a better
choice in the long run, but I'm not sure...
I don't forsee any major problems. In actuality, I've had about a
dozen people inquiring as to what they are allowed to do with Retro.
It seems that the "public domain" as a whole is poorly defined in
today's world.
--
Charles R. Childers
http://www.retroforth.org
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