[ccan] ISC license ?

[Greg London]

I'm not sure what ccan's overall goal is but according to cpan

http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_is_Perl_licensed

Most of the modules on cpan are licensed gnu gpl or perl artistic. Maybe  
ccan might want to consider a suggestion to contributers to keep, if at all  
possible, licenses to a few common ones (and list those common licenses).

There really are only a handful of different licensing goals.  And multiple  
nuances, while sometimes deathly important to the developer, ends up  
creating headaches for.all the downstream users because of  
incompatibilities.



Greg







-----Original message-----
From: Tim Post <echo at echoreply.us>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: ccan at lists.ozlabs.org
Sent: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 16:29:19 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [ccan] ISC license?

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:25 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> 
>    Finally glanced at your AVL code; noted the ISC license.  I'm not
> particularly fussed, but I found this note:

Where I work, that license is described (more or less as) "Avoid unless
it would take months to implement the code in question otherwise, get
approval before using it".

This is for the same reason that is cited by the folks at GNU. We also
avoid other licenses that have similar wording, but these are mostly
written by people who (for whatever reason) aren't happy with existing
licenses and decide to write their own.

Rusty, it might actually be worth listing the licenses in the same table
that lists the modules, at least pending some anticipated love to the
ccan web site.

For instance, I might be working on something that is GPL2 only, which
means GPL2+ or LGPL2+ is just fine for me. However, we have some stuff
that is  GPL3, for instance. 

I know the licenses are listed on each individual module page, but
imagine 500 modules. It really helps to click stuff that looks
interesting when you know you can actually use it :)

Cheers!
--Tim



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