Software licenses

[Andre Garzia]

Willian,

one way to encourage contributions is to use something like "Beer
Rewards", the best contribution of the month gets a pack of your
favorite lagger or ale or tea if they are not into alcohol.

Little competions are always nice too, like, whoever fix <insert
favorite bug> wins this nice drawing by my 3 year old nephew who we
believe is channeling picasso on tuesdays.

Getting out of the obvious is cool, if you force people to merge
changes back, you might encounter resistance. As people say here in
South America, if there's a goverment, soy contra! So people will
always look bad into forced things. Rewards on the other hand are
always looked forward. You get the idea.

Andre

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:57 PM, william humphrey <shoreagent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andre
>
> Good idea. Because it will be all about derivative work. I'm just hoping to
> get the people doing that to contribute back but I suppose there's no way to
> force that.
> Bill
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> choose your license wisely. GPL is viral, once in place, it will taint
>> derivative work... If you simply want to release free software and
>> doesn't care if people do anything with it, like going commercial with
>> a fork, then you might go for BSD or X11 MIT license.
>>
>> Where's that "please-don't-sue-me" license when we need it?
>>
>> Andre
>>
>>
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