Re: Making code public -- What steps to take? GPL?

Beware also that if you have an "advertising clause" that requires your name to stay on it, then you could be preventing GPLed projects from using it. The GPL is incompatible with "advertising clause" licenses. That's why the PHP License, for instance, is GPL-incompatible. (GPL is the most widely used Free Software / Open Source license by a very wide margin.) If you're OK with both open source and proprietary usage, then consider the LGPL. It's compatible both directions, only requiring modifications to your code specifically to be shared. The modern BSD license is even more permissable. It doesn't have a mandatory advertising clause, but IME if you have a good drop-in module that has a "copyright Me and released under the LGPL, see home page here" type message most people won't bother taking it out. The people who would try to take credit for your code wouldn't care what license it was under in the first place anyway. Thank you for sharing your code! On Sunday 13 May 2007, Daniel Brown wrote: > Right, I alluded to that, but perhaps I should've said that exactly, as > it may bother some people. In my case, it doesn't bother me in the least, > just as I use LAMP (all open source) to make a living. > > On 5/13/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:17, Micky Hulse wrote: > > > I will definitely read-up on the MIT license after I get some zzZZzz's! > > > > Don't forget the MIT license allows people to incorporate your code into > > commercial products and sell for profit without having to give anything > > back (money/improved code/etc). > > > > -- > > Crayon > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson