[Drawkit] CreativeCommons a permanent part of DrawKit?

[Uli Kusterer]

Am 21.06.2008 um 03:47 schrieb Graham Cox:
> From today, DrawKit no longer uses the Creative Commons license  
> (which was not very appropriate in any case). Instead, a BSD-style  
> license will apply. The next Beta drop, due very soon, will include  
> all updated headers and a new licensing text document. The CC  
> license will probably still apply to documentation, etc where it is  
> more appropriate.


Graham,

  I would suggest you take great care whatever next license you  
release the code under. If you really plan to charge for commercial  
use, AFAIK BSD will be too permissive. And once you've released the  
code as BSD, at least that version of the code will stay available as  
BSD if anyone ever keeps a copy (at least that's what I remember about  
the license from back when I researched those).

  What I generally do is mark my source code as copyrighted by me, but  
free for non-commercial uses, and tell people to contact me for a  
commercial use license. Then I usually give them a license valid for  
at least one major revision, telling them up front that this is of  
course a number I control myself, but they'll have to trust me not to  
screw them anyway ;-)

  Of course, you'll have to decide if a license is per developer, per  
product, per company or whatever.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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