I have been looking into this for the last couple of weeks and I think we should go with the MIT License in order to keep it simple for the start and to unblock allowing code contributions.
According to the article it is the most popular open source license as of the writing (a year ago).
It is a simple, short, permissive, explicit and easy to understand license.
It is hard to foresee if we need or want to go with a more restrictive license later and to my understanding the MIT License would allow that.
A few resources I used to look up open source software licenses:
I have been looking into this for the last couple of weeks and I think we should go with the MIT License in order to keep it simple for the start and to unblock allowing code contributions.
Here is a great overview of the MIT License with a comparison to a few others: https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-licenses-101-mit-license/
According to the article it is the most popular open source license as of the writing (a year ago). It is a simple, short, permissive, explicit and easy to understand license. It is hard to foresee if we need or want to go with a more restrictive license later and to my understanding the MIT License would allow that.
A few resources I used to look up open source software licenses: