[PLUG] Open Source Licenses

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Jul 25 15:50:25 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 13:10 -0700, Brian P. Martin wrote:
>  > My suggestion: GPL v.3 or later.
> 
> What about the so-called "viral" component of GPL?  If someone take a
> script of mine and grows it into something bigger and better and
> amazing, I don't think I'm concerned about how they license it.  As
> long
> as they don't restrict use of the original code or other people's
> ability to also grow that original code, I'm OK with them selling
> their
> new widget.
> 

The Apache 2.0 license is about the best fit for what you want. It is
what most of Android is licensed under.



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