Picking a license

[Paul Boddie]

On 11 Mai, 23:02, Patrick Maupin <pmau... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Huh? Permissive licenses offer much better certainty for someone
> attempting a creative mash-up.  Different versions of the Apache
> license don't conflict with each other.  If I use an MIT-licensed
> component, it doesn't attempt to make me offer my whole work under
> MIT.

What certainty does the MIT licence give contributors to a project
against patent infringement claims initiated by another contributor?

[...]

> Oh, I get it.  You were discussing the certainty that an author can
> control what downstream users do with the software to some extent.
> Yes, I fully agree.  The GPL is for angry idealists who have an easily
> outraged sense of justice, who don't have enough real problems to work
> on.

Again, the author does not exercise control when people must
voluntarily choose to use that author's work and thereby agree to
adhere to that author's set of terms.

Paul