On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:20:26AM -0300, Amadeus Folego wrote: > Hi there, > > I just noticed most of suckless projects use the MIT License, and I just > wondered if there was any place on the suckless wiki that stated why > this was preferred, but found none. > > So I thought that maybe this was something largely discussed already and > searched on the mailing list archives but found nothing as well. > > So, given this context, is there any manifesto about this particular License > choice? E.G is there a reason to avoid GPL? > > And if there is any consensus on this, can we display it somewhere > visible on the wiki? > > Kind regards, Amadeus.
It is simple to understand. MIT/X does not require a Ph.D in Law.