Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

[Mark Wieder]

Sivakatirswami-

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:28:04 PM, you wrote:

> I don't see that CC prevents sale of anything under that license, but
> wouldn't the MIT license be more in line with this intent?  And it *is*
> designed for software.

> Any insights on "problems" with MIT?  it *is* a copyleft license too,
> like the CC license.  Or to ask the question another way... why would
> you chose CC over MIT?

I have no problems with the MIT license. I simply chose the CC license
a while back because I like the CC idea. As you've noted, other
licenses may well be more appropriate and I may change my licensing in
the future.

I like clause 2 of the Eiffel license for open source projects:
"Permission is hereby also granted to distribute binary programs which
depend on this package. If the binary program depends on a modified
version of this package, you are encouraged to publicly release the
modified version of this package."

Note that the zlib license is very direct. It seems to cover
everything except the part above about putting modifications back into
the open source domain, so I may end up frankensteining this a bit to
handle that.

http://opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php

I notice that the Zope license says that it's "designated as GPL
compatible by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)", whatever that
means, but it's also straightforward and to the point.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net