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mickadam / PinholeCalculator

Opensource version of pinholeCalculator
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Header with copyright must be added #3

Open mickadam opened 10 years ago

daar commented 10 years ago

What kind of license are you thinking to put on the code? A very liberal license is the zlib license (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License), but you can also think of a more retrictive gpl or lgpl license. For me the zlib which is very simple would be ideal.

mickadam commented 10 years ago

I set it to creativecommons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ , I will real the Zlib

daar commented 10 years ago

You have to be carefull with which license you choose. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses#Approvals to see which license is compatible. The CC license you have now for instance is not compatible with GPL and therefore you might not be allowed to link to each library you like. Please see also here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_Android_applications), according to this list the most use GPLv2 or 3. We need to do a bit more investigation to decide the correct license I think.

mickadam commented 10 years ago

thanks a lot, I will read that when I will have time.

mickadam commented 10 years ago

I think you've right. After some investigation GPL3 can be a good. I had to use CC because it was easy to understand. I don't think that we have to use proprietary code for the app, so the lgpl is not necessary. If you have another comment don't hesitate.

thanks

daar commented 10 years ago

I found that iPhone is incompatible with GPL (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046). Not sure if this is a showstopper immediately, but perhaps a license that is compatible with Android and iPhone will prevent problems in the future. A more permissive license like zlib will have no problems with any of these platforms.