I'm writing some new code for a PHP project I'd like to license with a permissive license, BSD or MIT. In the wiki I found a lot of variants, can anyone advice me which one would be better to use?
Bonus points for a short one, as I'm going to add it on each file's header.
Thanks in advance
G.
On 12/21/2010 07:18 PM, giallu@gmail.com wrote:
I'm writing some new code for a PHP project I'd like to license with a permissive license, BSD or MIT. In the wiki I found a lot of variants, can anyone advice me which one would be better to use?
Bonus points for a short one, as I'm going to add it on each file's header.
So, keeping in mind that I'm not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice, Fedora is going to adopt the "MIT Modern Style with sublicense" variant in the coming FPCA (the CLA replacement):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense
This is an extremely permissive license, and it even includes the right for someone else to take it and change the license entirely (sublicense). If you don't want that, you might consider 3 clause BSD instead.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD#New_BSD_.28no_advertising.2C_3_...
hth, ~tom
== Fedora Project
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, giallu@gmail.com wrote:
I'm writing some new code for a PHP project I'd like to license with a permissive license, BSD or MIT. In the wiki I found a lot of variants, can anyone advice me which one would be better to use?
Bonus points for a short one, as I'm going to add it on each file's header.
(IANYL, TINLA)
You might like the ISC license, which is one of the shorter modern BSD-family variants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
- RF
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Richard Fontana rfontana@redhat.com wrote:
(IANYL, TINLA)
You might like the ISC license, which is one of the shorter modern BSD-family variants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
That looks perfect for my purposes, thank you for pointing it out.
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Tom Callaway