[tdsoc] Re: license of our projects

  • From: Massimiliano Max Sala <maxsalacodes@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "tdsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tdsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:56:20 +0100

Im in favour of lgpl but this is a personal opinion, Im not speaking ex 
cathedra 

Max

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On 03/mar/2013, at 10:16, Davide Kirchner <davide.kirchner@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If those are the requirements, then Apache2 is the most appropriate, but I 
> find LGPL a good compromise between permissive and copyleft licences.
> 
> Note that, according to Apache2 licence, we must provide a NOTICE file in 
> order to force attribuition of our work in derivative works.
> 
> 
> Davide
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> Da: Lorenzo Nicolodi <lorenzo.nicolodi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> A: tdsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> Inviato: Sabato 2 Marzo 2013 21:32
>> Oggetto: [tdsoc] Re: license of our projects
>> 
>> 
>> thanks federico.
>> 
>> so apache2 seems more appropriate.... any other thought from you guys?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Federico "fox" Scrinzi <fox91@xxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On sab, 2013-03-02 at 13:27 +0100, Lorenzo Nicolodi wrote:
>>> 
>>>> the last step we need to accomplish is to decide which type of
>>>> opensource license our projects will use. we need something which
>>>> allows
>>>> everyone to use / modify our code for both free and commercial
>>>> open/closed source projects, if and only if they indicate us as the
>>>> source of the work.
>>> 
>>> GPL and LGPL are not compliant with your requirements. If the software
>>> is modified and you use such licenses the third party must release the
>>> modifed version under the same license.
>>> So I think that the Apache license fits best (or BSD, MIT, ecc..).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> f.
>>> 
>>>   "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache
>>>    invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Lorenzo Nicolodi
> 

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