OT: Opinion, best open source license to use?

[Dave Germiquet]

Here is my main reasons for open sourcing it:

1. I want people to be able to improve it and I can see what they have
improved so I also can learn.
2. I want people to see how I did things and learn how to program with
android with it (sorta like how I googled to find how to code
different things in android
3. My current users are having problems or want things updated.
Wouldn't mind seeing them be able to still use this program.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I was wondering what your opinion is for best open source license to
>> use? I'm planning on open sourcing a simple program that I created for
>> Android as I don't have time to spend alot of effort on it and quite
>> alot of people are still using it. (So maybe someone might actually
>> benefit from it.)
>
> What's your purpose in releasing it?
>
> If you'd like to control how it continues to evolve pretty tightly,
> then the GPL is likely preferable.
>
> If you'd like it to get used, as widely as possible, as a sort of
> 'reference implementation' that people might use as a template for
> their own, perhaps rather different, Android app, then there is
> considerable merit to the BSD license.
>
> There's some room in between for other licenses, too.
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