OpenEuphoria

Re: Open source licenses explained

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Sep 21, 2006
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D. Newhall wrote:
> Since we've been debating licenses for Euphoria I figured someone should
> probably
> explain all of them. So, here's an explanation for the most popular open
> source
> licenses out there (all opinions and biases are mine unless otherwise noted).
> Everyone should read the original licenses as well.
> 
> (Note: I am not a lawyer and am simplifying everything a lot. Also, some of
> these licenses I haven't read recently and may have forgotten something.)

Thanks for that summary.
I won't decide anything for sure until I hear more of
what people have to say on this.

All I can say now is I'm
leaning toward a less restrictive license. I'm really not
that concerned if someone takes my code and uses it in
a closed source program, but I'd be concerned if that
possibility would turn off certain people from contributing to
Euphoria. I have no interest in trying to champion "open source"
over closed source. I would just like to see Euphoria steadily improve
and become more useful to more people. If someone somehow makes a 
few bucks off my code it doesn't particularly bother me, especially
if that somehow increases the popularity of Euphoria,
but if it would bother other contributors I'd like to hear about it.
I tend to get turned off when I see a lengthy, complicated license
attached to some code that I'm considering using.

Maybe someone can suggest some "worst case" scenarios that
I may be missing here.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com