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That was surprising. Those are some very, very permissive licenses and pretty widely used, too. Just today I wrote a plugin and stuck an MIT license on it. The
by quacker 11y ago
That was surprising. Those are some very, very permissive licenses and pretty widely used, too. Just today I wrote a plugin and stuck an MIT license on it. The only requirement is basically that you keep the license/copyright with all copies of the code. Is that really so much baggage?
- ryanjuckett 11y agoThe issue is that you need to ship the license with binaries as well. When you work on systems like game consoles, this gets even more annoying because you can't just add some sidecart text file. You instead need to write up some UI page to show the licenses or reference some website that you keep online forever for people to visit. It's not the end of the worls, but a license that just requires comments in the source code is a bunch simpler to track (no need to collate them all into some user facing GUI).