Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Thanx Ted and Peter, MIT will do, I will suggest it to the customer, and it is really VERY brief and understandable :-) Emmanouil: >IMO the libraries have very little value without the source code being >available under an OS license Normally I would agree, but in this case the MIT license will

Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Ted Husted
If it were me, I'd probably suggest putting the binaries under the MIT license. * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php It talks about "software" but doesn't distinguish between source and object form. The MIT license also has the virtue of being brief and easy to understand :) The

Re: [OT] Question about licensing

2006-03-08 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Hello Leon, IMO the libraries have very little value without the source code being available under an OS license. In my experience this view now also applies in the corporate environment; managers want to stay away from free binary packages since they cannot know how the code actually works