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hexagon5un / AVR-Programming

Code examples for the book "Make: AVR Programming"
http://littlehacks.org/AVR-Programming
MIT License
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Can you clarify the license of this code? #11

Closed ddaygold closed 8 years ago

ddaygold commented 8 years ago

Specifically the Makefile found here: AVR-Programming/setupProject/Makefile

hexagon5un commented 8 years ago

Good point. I'll have to pick a license, I guess. Yuck. I'll look into it and get back to you.

Whatever I end up using, it'll be as permissive as possible.

Any ideas? I really hate the license blobs at the top of other code -- it's just stuff you have to scroll through to get down to business.

ddaygold commented 8 years ago

I don't really know too much about what's available, however, I found this site to be pretty straightforward and helpful: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/

What I do know is when there is no grant of license, the code is copywritten by default.

adicarlo commented 8 years ago

For the most permissive license, simply put the code into the public domain. I believe all you have to do is state that.

The next step up is something like the BSD or MIT license, but these do involve blerbs...

hexagon5un commented 8 years ago

I'm horrible. I finally put MIT on it, because it's easy, it's very open, and it's no hassle. Thanks all for bringing this point up and putting my feet to the fire.