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