[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Joss Wright]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:35 +0100, Dave Denholm wrote:
> Mark Boon <tesujisoftware at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 6-aug-2006, at 1:38, Dave Dyer wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> If half as much energy went into writing the program as
> >> is going into deciding what license to use...(fill in
> >> your favorite exaggeration here)
> >>
> >
> > It's not so bad yet Dave :) We've been going on only for a little
> > while about it. But a wrong decision here will affect the project to
> > the end of its existence.
> 
> I don't think the initial license decision need be final. The
> copyright owner is always free to re-release under multiple licenses.
> 
> (That will get difficult if individual source files have different
> copyright holders. I guess all copyright holders would have to agree.)
> 
> 
> dd

I've been following this for a while, and it has occurred to me in other
projects: does it really have to be released under a license? If you
really don't have anything specific that needs to be in the license
(which is what most people's use of things like the BSD or even GPL
license is for) then just don't use one. There is quite an obsession
with licenses, and I do question what hideous consequences there would
be to just putting software up without attaching a license.

Joss