[Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 20:38:03 EST 2013


On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:01:19 +0000
"Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:

> Release your code under GPL, and MIT, and CDDL.  "Any recipient of
> this software may choose any of the following licenses.  Don't see a
> license you want?  Write to us at ___ and we'll consider releasing it
> under that license too."

The Open Sound System (OSS) source is licensed under both GPLv2 and CDDL
along with a commercial license for proprietary applications. 4Front
added CDDL because the GPL prevented the GPL-licensed code from being
used in *BSD and OpenSolaris.

-- 
Rich P.



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