[okfn-labs] License for pybossa sample apps

Mon Nov 26 07:59:52 UTC 2012

Hi there,

I'm checking the Free Software Foundation recommendations about the
licenses and I think that one option could be the GPLv3 and not the AGPLv3
as I love copyleft licenses, but as you can see this is my personal taste.
In order to get a bit more of information regarding licenses I checked the
Free Software Foundation page about licenses, and specifically for the
Modified BSD license the FSF says this (copy and
paste<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD>
):

"The modified BSD license is not bad, as lax permissive licenses go, though
the Apache 2.0 license is preferable. However, it is risky to recommend use
of “the BSD license”, even for special cases such as small programs,
because confusion could easily occur and lead to use of the flawed original
BSD license."

When you talk about the MIT license I think you are saying the Expat
license, right? In this case the FSF says this (copy and
paste<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat>
):

"For substantial programs it is better to use the Apache 2.0 license since
it blocks patent treachery."

Thus I think that we can choose between GPLv3 my personal choice or
Apache2.0 as it is the alternative recommended by the FSF for Expat and
BSD. By the way, what is the problem with GPLv3 for you?

Best regards,

Daniel

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Good point Tom. I think that was a default and, IMO, we should
> definitely change it to MIT.
>
> @Daniel: are you happy for this to happen?
>
> Rufus
>
> On 23 November 2012 16:28, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if this is common to all the sample apps, but I was looking
> at
> > the Flickr person app to see whether it's really a 99% solution to the
> image
> > classification problem and noticed that it's using the most viral license
> > possible (AGPL).  Is this an intentional?  Normally sample code uses a
> very
> > liberal license (e.g. MIT, BSD, etc) to encourage wide adoption with
> minimum
> > friction.
> >
> > Tom
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