Starting a Project

[Benjamin Adams]

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking to start a project on my own.  I would like to grow it to a 
stable state and a clear direction.  Once it's built I would like to 
integrate it into Fedora.

Question is what License would work best for the project to integrate 
with Redhat's Open source model?

Not sure if this really matters but I know Fedora doesn't include some 
software because of licensing issues.

aka: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems

I'm guessing I can pick any of these:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing

As long as it's FSF = yes

Thanks

Ben

[Tom Callaway]

On 05/31/2013 07:26 PM, Benjamin Adams wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm looking to start a project on my own.  I would like to grow it to a
> stable state and a clear direction.  Once it's built I would like to
> integrate it into Fedora.
>
> Question is what License would work best for the project to integrate
> with Redhat's Open source model?
>
> Not sure if this really matters but I know Fedora doesn't include some
> software because of licensing issues.
>
> aka: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems
>
> I'm guessing I can pick any of these:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing
>
> As long as it's FSF = yes

The only advice I can give (not legal advice, please note):

* Use a free software license (and do not write your own).
* Do not implement things which are known to be patented (unless you
have an unrestricted patent grant in writing from the patent holder)
* Do not implement things which circumvent a copyright protection scheme.
* Do not depend on other components which do one of the above. :)

hth,

~tom

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