OT: Opinion, best open source license to use?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 6 22:00:21 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:44:25PM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> 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.

OK that rules out the BSD license.  BSD license has no requirement what
so ever that they give any changes to anyone.

I don't know if any of the standard open source licenses require sharing
anything with the author.  GPL requires sharing with users you give
binaries to, but no more.

> 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.

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