OpenHamilton/hsrsms — Issue #1: Copyright License
Author: TheCycoONE
Created: 2011-12-10 13:44:57+00:00
State: open

Before proceeding much further we should be deciding on a licence for the code. Just because code is on github doesn't mean it's 'open source', as is any one of us could decide that our own contributions cannot be redistributed.

I think we need the sign off of all developers that have contributed so far whichever way we go:

I personally have a preference for short understandable and rather lenient licences like the MIT license; though all of the following are acceptable to me.

MIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
BSD 4-clause http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license (where organization is Open Hamilton)
APACHE 2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
GPL v2 or v3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

If you have another preferred licence please bring it up for discussion. I am not in favour of the AGPL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) or any other license that restricts our ability to be integrated with city services.