The vast majority of the community uses MIT licences.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Forrest L Norvell <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, David Herron <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm curious about the preferred license for modules that are distributed >> through the npmjs.org repository > > > We discussed this a bit at NodeConf summer camp this year, and the > consensus was pretty strongly in favor of BSD or MIT licenses, or at least > pretty liberal, commercial-use friendly licenses (including the Perl and > Apache licenses). > > In particular is there any legal barrier to using GPL in such modules? >> >> As far as I understand it, the legal barrier would be whether a module >> which uses a GPL'd module is derivative of that module. I don't think that >> it would be, but then the LGPL license does exist for a reason. >> > > Isaac can speak to this more authoritatively than I can, but npm itself > prescribes / proscribes no particular licenses. You could attach GPL3 > licenses to your modules if you wanted, but uptake would probably be > hampered, especially if there were some kind of associated Canonical-style > contributor's agreement. Node is still pretty much the wild west, and it's > tough to say if today's random hack project might not become tomorrow's > startup idea, and I think most devs want to keep their options open. > > F > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
