Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

From: Anthony J. Bentley <anthony_AT_cathet.us>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:19:33 -0600

Amadeus Folego writes:
> Hi there,
>
> I just noticed most of suckless projects use the MIT License, and I just
> wondered if there was any place on the suckless wiki that stated why
> this was preferred, but found none.
>
> So I thought that maybe this was something largely discussed already and
> searched on the mailing list archives but found nothing as well.
>
> So, given this context, is there any manifesto about this particular License
> choice? E.G is there a reason to avoid GPL?

If your license does not fit in a page, it is a poor license.

$ wc -w * | sort -n
      73 wtfpl
     118 isc
     155 zlib
     171 mit
     197 unlicense
     221 bsd
     978 cc0
    1234 lgpl3
    1577 apache2
    1965 cc-by
    2154 cc-by-sa
    2968 gpl2
    4372 lgpl2.1
    5214 gpl3
    5535 agpl3
   26932 total

Personally, I stick with ISC.

-- 
Anthony J. Bentley
Received on Mon May 12 2014 - 21:19:33 CEST

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