Timeline for Picking the right license
Current License: CC BY-SA 2.5
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 10, 2011 at 11:58 | vote | accept | orlp | ||
| Jan 7, 2011 at 0:34 | comment | added | mpen | Confusing. They should have taught me this in uni :p | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | David Thornley | @Ralph: No, it doesn't disallow use in commercial apps. "Proprietary", in Gnu terms, means that the license isn't Free, and the "Free" is to be understood in the sense of freedom and not zero price. It has nothing to do with commercial vs. non-commercial. It does make some business models unfeasible (like selling large numbers of identical shrinkwrapped copies), but the commercial use of software includes much more than selling copies of applications. Red Hat, for example, makes a thriving business out of Free Software. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 19:35 | comment | added | mpen | Huh? I thought the GPL disallowed use in commercial apps. "using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs." gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 16:03 | history | answered | David Thornley | CC BY-SA 2.5 |