Picking a license (was Re: new extension generator for C++)

Rouslan Korneychuk rouslank at msn.com
Thu May 6 18:53:50 EDT 2010


On 05/06/2010 04:22 PM, Aahz wrote:
> In article<4BE05D75.7030301 at msn.com>,
> Rouslan Korneychuk<rouslank at msn.com>  wrote:
>>
>> The only question I have now is what about licensing? Is that something
>> I need to worry about? Should I go with LGPL, MIT, or something else?
>
> Which license you use depends partly on your political philosophy.
> Unless you have an aggressively Stallmanesque attitude that people using
> your code should be forced to contribute back any changes, stick with
> MIT.  (Generally speaking, the less encumbrance in your code, the more
> likely people are to use it, if your goal is to encourage users.)

MIT it is, then.



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