Picking a license

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat May 8 10:26:31 EDT 2010


In article <4be522ac$0$27798$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>
>For the record, I've published software under an MIT licence because I 
>judged the cost of the moral hazard introduced by encouraging freeloaders 
>to be less than the benefits of having a more permissive licence that 
>encourages freeloading and therefore attracts more users. For other 
>software, I might judge that the cost/benefit ratio falls in a different 
>place, and hence choose the GPL.

Well, yes, which is more-or-less what I posted in the first place.
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