On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > The best way to do that is to labour in obscurity, where nobody either > knows or cares about your application. There are hundreds of thousands, > possibly millions, of such applications, with a user base of one: the > creator.
And I'm sure Steven will agree with me that this is not in any way a bad thing. I've written hundreds of such programs myself (possibly thousands), and they have all served their purposes. On a slightly larger scale, there are even more programs that have never left the walls of my house, having been written for my own family - not because I'm afraid someone else will steal them, but because they simply are of no value to anyone else. But hey, if anyone wants a copy of my code that's basically glue between [obscure application #1] and [obscure application #2] that does [obscure translation] as well to save a human from having to do it afterwards, sure! You're welcome to it! :) However, I do not GPL my code; I prefer some of the other licenses (such as CC-BY-SA), unless I'm working on a huge project that's not meant to have separate authors. For something that by and large is one person's work, I think it's appropriate to give attribution. But discussion of exactly _which_ open source license to use is a can of worms that's unlikely to be worth opening at this stage. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
