May newcomers to the world of Internet get what open source licensing is about wrong. Even some supposedly experienced Internet users as well, even a programmer. The programmer in question added some open source code to a proprietary software.
Anyway, a nice beginners open source licensing post was made by scripter at UK WW today. Excerpts from his post goes as follows:

So, you’ve managed to write your first “useful” PHP script, and want to make it open source, let the world enjoy your work. But however you decide to use your scripts, as long as you use them publicly, they need a LICENSE, since no software falls outside the bounds of international law.

Your have multiple licensing options - if you want to make some money (and your script or application is really useful and truly fit for a particular purpose), you may launch your script as commercialware, hence people should pay to use your application. Or you may make it shareware, allowing anyone to use a slightly restricted version of your software, and if anyone feels your software fits his purposes, he may pay for the full version. Another option would be freeware, which means you’d release your software freely, allowing anyone to use it at no charge.

You can read the full article here 

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Posted November 1st, 2007 at 10:08 pm in category Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.