We have a temporary MIT licence, but we need to decide which licence to use permanently.
The main issue is the potential of the project to get hijacked, since an office suite/word processor is a more lucrative target compared to an operating system. This could be free/libre people inducing Linuxisms or people selling dodgy ports on Windows. Haiku has a trademark and distribution policy that protects it from such things, but we might want to introduce something a bit stronger from the get-go.
The licence still needs to be "permissive" and not copy left, but otherwise we are free to pick.
Here are some of the more popular permissive licences out there:
We have a temporary MIT licence, but we need to decide which licence to use permanently.
The main issue is the potential of the project to get hijacked, since an office suite/word processor is a more lucrative target compared to an operating system. This could be free/libre people inducing Linuxisms or people selling dodgy ports on Windows. Haiku has a trademark and distribution policy that protects it from such things, but we might want to introduce something a bit stronger from the get-go.
The licence still needs to be "permissive" and not copy left, but otherwise we are free to pick.
Here are some of the more popular permissive licences out there:
(Die oben genannten Web-Links verweisen auf die Bedingungen der Lizenz in Deutsch)
Or we could dual licence it, with the Haiku code under the MIT, and any possible cross-platform code under the likes of the Artistic licence.