Re: [Slashcode-general] licensing issues information?

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 08:49 -0400 2001.08.24, shane wrote:
>Is there a website or other online resource that
>explains all the different licenses available, and the
>issues that come with each?
>
>I've got a number of plugins written, or atleast
>being written. I plan to put them all out at no cost
>because slash itself is free (atleast the calendar
>and photo gallery plugins).
>
>But, I've got a wife, home, kids, and a small
>side business. I don't want to endanger any of them
>by using the "wrong" licensing to put some of these
>out for use and have some idiot come after me
>because he accidentally rm -f'd his drive while installing one
>of my plugins.
>
>And I honestly don't know what license I would do
>best by going with.

Some would argue that you are required to put your publically available
Slash plugin under the GPL.  I am not convinced this is true, but some
would say that.  I think that it might be worthwhile to get the legal
position of OSDN on that.  I'll try to find out.

-- 
Chris Nandor                      pu...@po...    http://pudge.net/
Open Source Development Network    pu...@os...     http://osdn.com/