open source license question
Alexey Zinger <inline_four-/[email protected]> Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:56:37 -0800 (PST)
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This is directed to anyone who's had some experience with licensing OS software, particularly BeanShell-based. I've been working on and off on a personal project of mine -- a Java spreadsheet, which uses BeanShell for expression evaluation. I originally licensed it under GPL and it hasn't been an issue, but I've always gone back and forth in my mind whether it should be LGPL, like BeanShell itself. I suppose the logical question to ask is what the intentions are behind the project. I'm not trying to create a hit, though if some consulting came out of it, or I was able to leverage it at work, as I have in the past, I wouldn't have a problem with it. It basically grew out of some of my own tinkering, as many such projects do I'm sure. Once I saw significant advantages to it, I decided to put it out-there, as much to make it useful for others as to let it be hosted somewhere where I didn't have to worry it, so I put it on Sourceforge under GPL. At this time, I'm gearing up to sneak in a few bug fixes and some missing features and call it an honest 1.0 relese. Seems like a good time to revisit the license question. Any recommendations? Alexey 2001 Honda CBR600F4i (CCS) 1992 Kawasaki EX500 http://bsheet.sourceforge.net __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php