[computer-go] OT: OS licenses

Mark Boon tesujisoftware at gmail.com
Sun Aug 6 04:59:22 PDT 2006


On 5-aug-2006, at 23:50, Darren Cook wrote:

>
> P.S. I marked this as off-topic, but the same thing is happening here.
> If GoGUI was BSD instead of GPL Mark would do two things:
>   1. Make useful contributions
>   2. Embed it in a future commercial project and make money from it.
>
> If I was the author, the pleasure of 1 far exceeds the "pain" of 2.

I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I chose the X/MIT type of  
license. I think it's more or less equivalent to the BSD license, but  
more concise. The fewer legal lines in my project the better.

Mark



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