Share-alike
This requires that people/organizations who make a derivative work (modify the source code) share it under the same license, and thus make their code open source.
Well-known
The GNU GPL is a well-known OSS license, so people know what they can expect and do with our code.
Any comments on our choice of license? Please converse in the comments of this issue!
This requires #10 to be finished, since we don't want to license the official Cygnus layout as open source.
License choice: GNU GPL
We decided to go with the GNU General Public License because of some long thought-about reasons:
This requires that people/organizations who make a derivative work (modify the source code) share it under the same license, and thus make their code open source.
The GNU GPL is a well-known OSS license, so people know what they can expect and do with our code.
Any comments on our choice of license? Please converse in the comments of this issue!
To be expanded