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pick a FOSS license #24

Closed dlachowicz-mw closed 7 years ago

dlachowicz-mw commented 10 years ago

if/when we open source stumps, we should choose a license

mwmharrington commented 10 years ago

I'm typically a fan of the more permissive style licenses (e.g. BSD, MIT), but that's a purely personal thing. We could go with Apache, but there's not really any patent issues that we're trying to pass along. Whenever I'm writing code that I plan on opening up I could generally care less how people use it or if they want to use some random pieces for another project. It also find that I can find a lot of other software I can incorporate going down this route.

However, for this I could certainly see us using a copyleft license (e.g. GPL2) if we think that this is and should always be a community tool. It just may restrict us a bit more going forward in terms of what we can use. GPL3... well... I'll keep that opinion to myself.

Just my $0.02.

mwmharrington commented 7 years ago

Using Apache