Please help me choose a license!
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 8:56 am
Hi all,
I'm lead developer on m2f. We're having trouble deciding on which license is appropriate for our application.
The legal jargon, and indeed even the human-readable equivalents on the Creative Commons site, make my head hurt. I just don't want to get anything wrong and get into trouble by mistake.
Here are the principle requirements we have of a license:
It seems that almost all the PHP libraries I use have a LGPL or GNU license. Are either of these appropriate for us? I was confused in particular by this line in the LGPL:
I'm sure there's a simple answer to my question, but I'd love some advice!
Cheers
I'm lead developer on m2f. We're having trouble deciding on which license is appropriate for our application.
The legal jargon, and indeed even the human-readable equivalents on the Creative Commons site, make my head hurt. I just don't want to get anything wrong and get into trouble by mistake.
Here are the principle requirements we have of a license:
- we want to release it as Open Source code
- we don't want others to make money from it by selling it
- we want to be able to make money from it by the means of donations, providing support or extra modules, etc
- we want to honour the licenses of any 3rd-party library that we include in the m2f package
It seems that almost all the PHP libraries I use have a LGPL or GNU license. Are either of these appropriate for us? I was confused in particular by this line in the LGPL:
Does m2f (a self-contained PHP application) count as a "software library" or an "executable program" in this case?The LGPL is intended for software libraries, rather than executable programs.
I'm sure there's a simple answer to my question, but I'd love some advice!
Cheers