Am Montag, 11. März 2013 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: > On 13147 March 1977, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > We did not finally decide on a license. Current favorite is GPL 2 or > > later which should be compatible with the licenses the libraries the > > script use use[1]. > > > > ruby: Ruby 2-clause BSDL (see the file BSDL) > > ruby-net-ssh: Expat > > ruby-net-ssh-gateway: Expat, I think > > ruby-net-sftp: Expat, I think > > ruby-termios: GPL (2+ according to copyright file) > > > > What are usual licenses for such a kind of program? Do you have any > > recommendation or see any issues with GPL? > > > > I tend to use GPL-2 or later in order to avoid any possible license > > incompatibilies that are specific to the GPL-3. But according to [1] > > the GPL-3 would work fine as well? > > > > Any recommendations? > > It depends on what you want to achieve with the license you select. > > "Everyone can take it, sell it, incorporate it into own products" -> > BSD. "Oh we also them to give the source to whoever they give the > binary" -> GPL > > Or other way: > With GPL you give your recipients the freedom to run and distribute the > software, as well as the source and modifications to it. But you also > enforce that they have to continue that with the next in line. > > With BSD they can do the same, but there it stops. > > Chose your pill, some people prefer the one, some the other. Both of > them work for what you intend.
Thank you. I am aware of this main difference between copyleft and "more permissive" licenses. Well I think we want GPL. Its a script anyway, source could only be obfuscated unless there is a ruby compiler. And I think we do not want that. But I specifically wonder about version 2 or 3 or 2 or later or 3 or later. Well accoding to the compabitily page GPL 3 will work, as long as there is no GPL 2 only software involved. Thus well I double check the ruby termios license. If its really GPL 2+, GPL 3+ seems fine to me. Any other oppinions? Thanks, -- Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303120957.43297...@teamix.de
