Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-05 Thread Siju George
Thank you so much Ingo. Things are very clear. :-) On Aug 5, 2017 8:58 AM, "Ingo Schwarze" wrote: > Hi Siju, > > Siju George wrote on Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 06:50:12AM +0530: > > > In a code repository should the licence wording be on every file ? > > Best practice is: > > 1. To have at least on

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-04 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Siju, Siju George wrote on Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 06:50:12AM +0530: > In a code repository should the licence wording be on every file ? Best practice is: 1. To have at least one line containing "Copyright (c) ..." at the top of each file containing copyrightable content. 2. Each author

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-04 Thread Siju George
Thank you In for the detailed explanation. In a code repository should the licence wording be on every file ? Or just in a file named "Licence" in the root folder ? On Aug 5, 2017 12:49 AM, "Ingo Schwarze" wrote: > Hi, > > Reyk Floeter wrote on Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:41:18AM +0200: > > Am 04.08

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-04 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Reyk Floeter wrote on Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:41:18AM +0200: > Am 04.08.2017 um 05:11 schrieb Siju George : >> I want this information to be available to all without discrimination. >> Which is the best licence I can give them? > the license is your choice ;-) While that is both true and im

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-04 Thread Siju George
Thank you Reyk . I will use ISC :-) On Aug 4, 2017 12:11 PM, "Reyk Floeter" wrote: > Hi, > > the license is your choice ;-) > > But we use ISC for new code in OpenBSD and I also use for all other open > source code these days. > > See: > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/ >

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-04 Thread Gareth Nelson
My usual rule is this: If you want it copyleft, GPLv2 If you don't want it copyleft, BSD Since you're asking on the OpenBSD mailing list, most people will recommend the license OpenBSD is using On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Reyk Floeter wrote: > Hi, > > the license is your choice ;-) > > But

Re: Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-03 Thread Reyk Floeter
Hi, the license is your choice ;-) But we use ISC for new code in OpenBSD and I also use for all other open source code these days. See: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html And: ht

Please Advise on licencing

2017-08-03 Thread Siju George
Hi, I have a git repo https://github.com/sgeorge where I populate mainly contents about docker. I want this information to be available to all without discrimination. Which is the best licence I can give them? BSD or ISC or MIT or any other? Heard Reyk is not using BSD licence for his driver