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Aethylred / puppet-blank

A blank puppet module suitable for submitting to Puppet Forge.
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[request] Change license to the BSD license? #2

Open mwpher opened 10 years ago

mwpher commented 10 years ago

Hi,

Licensing your project under the GPL makes it illegal for anyone who forks it to license their modules under anything else but the GPL. This might make sense if you were concerned about having your life's work ripped off by a company, but since this is a template, wouldn't it be more natural to license it under a permissive license, since the template is just designed for anyone's purposes?

Personally, I'd like to license any modules that I make from this under the BSD license, since most of the modules I want to make are targeted for BSD.

Below, I've attached the unbelievably tiny text of the BSD two-clause license so you can see it.

Thanks, --Matt

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Aethylred commented 10 years ago

I have been reconsidering re-licensing to MIT or Apache, but I've not spent time considering the options yet. The GPL worked better for my intentions than the Creative Commons I originally chose (which doesn't work correctly under New Zealand legislation).