open source license question

Alexey Zinger <inline_four-/[email protected]> Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:56:37 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.beanshell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


	
		
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