[Box Backup] License
Ben Summers
boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:43:12 +0000
Hi,
I'm considering moving to a plain BSD license. I believe the current
one is putting people off, and it's certainly preventing me from
getting an account on sourceforge and all the publicity that entails.
The reason I'm not using one now is that I am trying to earn a living
out of this software. By preventing others from using it to provide
commercial services, I am protecting one particular option for myself.
However, in the long term I don't need this, and it's beneficial to my
project to have lots of people using it. And I'm not sure how likely
anyone would be to pick it up and use it on a huge scale -- it would
need some extra tools I'm developing to do that easily.
I would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. I think the software is
now almost ready for a wider audience, and I'd like to get it out
there.
Thanks,
Ben