Which License Should I Use?

[Steve Holden]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:30:46 -0800, mojosam wrote:
> 
> 
>>I guess I don't care too much about how other people use it.
> 
> 
> Then probably the best licence to use is just to follow the lead of
> Python. For that sort of small program of limited value, I put something
> like this in the code:
> 
> Copyright (c) 2005 Steven D'Aprano.
> Released under the same license as used by Python 2.3.2 itself. 
> See http://www.python.org/psf/license.html for details, and 
> http://www.python.org/2.3.2/license.html for the full text of the license.
> 
> I use that as a no-brainer licence: it is weaker than but compatible with
> the GPL, and requires less documentation.
> 
Not only is this inappropriate, it doesn't even license users to use 
your software, it licenses them to use Python! The official advice of 
the PSF is that the unmodified Python license should *not* (and, really, 
can not) be used to license any other software.

regards
  Steve
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