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XVimProject / XVim

Xcode plugin for Vim keybindings
MIT License
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Choosing a license #335

Closed mjmdavis closed 11 years ago

mjmdavis commented 11 years ago

I was wondering if a license has been chosen for the software. I think people might be more inclined to contribute if they knew the code was licensed.

Unless this happens soon things might get quite complicated for all involved. As far as I understand it, all contributors will have to agree to the license or their work will have to be removed in order to adopt the license.

There is an overview of some of the licenses available here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-license.html

JugglerShu commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I now should choose license. What I would like to do is making XVim "free" as possible as I can including all the code here. Simply say : I just want to keep my right to keep developing XVim. I do not mind they reuse the code here or even sell it (I don't know if other contributers also think so, though) And I do not want to take any responsibility with any badness caused by using code here.

Public Domain is fine for this?

mjmdavis commented 11 years ago

In that case I think that the MIT license is a good one. It provides a general disclaimer of liability and allows: "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software" Provided the licence text is included in all copies of the software.

It seems like a "cover your back" license. If anything bad happens with the code you are not in trouble :-P

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

JugglerShu commented 11 years ago

OK. Then I'll make this source code MIT License after announcing it to other contributors.

Thanks!

JugglerShu commented 11 years ago

Now that XVim is under MIT license