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Oh man, here's the part where I show my total ineptitude when it comes to code licensing... Anyone have a link to a quick guide to code licensing for total new

• cstejerean 17y ago
  You can start by looking at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category The first question you need to answer is whether you want a copyleft license[1], that requires all derivative works to be open sourced as well, or a more liberal license that allows one to use your code in a proprietary application. If you are OK with a liberal license you probably want to pick either the BSD[2] or MIT[3] license. For example, Django uses a BSD license. If you want a copyleft license you probably want to use GPL[4] or LGPL[5] [1] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ [2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php [3] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php [4] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php [5] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php