[seagrant-dev] License

[Justin Dugger]

IIRC, the Sencha components are GPLv3, if that influences anything.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Kennric <kennric at osuosl.org> wrote:
>
> We need to decide on the license to apply to the open-source products of our
> work. I think both back-end and mobile code should use the same license, but I
> don't know what that means for the Apple side of things.
>
> We tend to prefer Apache v2 [1], but other possibilities are:
>
> MIT [2] - more permissive and simpler, perhaps more ambiguous when it comes to
> patent issues.
>
> GPL 2 [3] (or 3 [4])- includes clauses requiring derivative works to also be
> open source.
>
> The OSL and OSU tend to prefer Apache for its legal simplicity and clarity.
>
> It is a good idea to choose and apply the license as soon as the git repo is
> created.
>
> Ken
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
> [2] http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> [3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
> [4] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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