Timeline for License for library developed with commercial program
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 9:10 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @Jaap: You can't "assign" copyright in many legal systems, so this can easily get you in trouble with non-US contributors. Having contributors grant you extra rights is more reliable. If you search for the old Qt license, it did just that – said that Trolltech is granted some extra rights. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 8:53 | comment | added | Jaap | @Overv, you can request copyright assignment for any contributions. That way you keep all rights over the library including the right to use it in your commercial app. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 8:33 | history | edited | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 3.0 | mention some more licenses |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 8:10 | comment | added | Martijn Verburg | I'll add that Apache and Eclipse licenses are considered to be well suited for what the OP is after. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 17:18 | vote | accept | Overv | ||
| Nov 19, 2012 at 14:17 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @Overv: Yes. But not accepting contribution limits the usefulness of open-sourcing it. Perhaps you could dig out the old Trolltech contributor agreement (Qt was switched to LGPL when Nokia bought them, so it isn't active anymore) as a starting point. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 14:11 | comment | added | Overv | So essentially I'm fine as long as I don't accept merge requests or contributions in some other way? Is open-sourcing still worth it in that case? | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @Heinzi: Than you can't use it together with "g" in the same application. Sometimes even if you do have the sources you are in trouble. The OpenSSL library with it's custom license is causing a lot of problems for open-source applications! | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 13:20 | comment | added | Heinzi | +1, nice explanation. I'm curious about your example, though: What if I don't have the source of h? | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 13:12 | comment | added | K.Steff | +1, though I would like to point out that GPL does not rule out a commercial application | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 13:00 | history | edited | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add paragraph about derived work |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 12:51 | history | edited | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 91 characters in body |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 12:45 | history | answered | Jan Hudec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |