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it's very easy: GPL: nobody can distribute your software as a closed-source system. Nobody can also link your software with non-opensource ones. BSD, MIT, Apa
by xxqs 15y ago
it's very easy:
GPL: nobody can distribute your software as a closed-source system. Nobody can also link your software with non-opensource ones.
BSD, MIT, Apache: anyone is allowed to do anything with your code, provided that reference to your name is preserved.
If you code an open-source product, but it's intended for enterprise integration with lots of non-opensource components, go for a non-GPL licence, like MIT.
In most other cases, GPL is everything you need.
For non-software products that you want to share, use Creative Commons licenses.
- ecaron 15y agoFor non-software products that you want to share, use Creative Commons licenses. That selection in itself isn't easy, which is probaby why they have a page dedicated to that decision: http://creativecommons.org/choose/ http://creativecommons.org/choose/
- xxqs 15y agoof course, every such decision needs research and reading. Nothing is easy :)