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« on: December 08, 2009, 02:58:10 AM »

I can't seem to find much information (in humane form) on licences. I have started a roguelike project in Ruby/Gosu, however I find myself overwhelmed by all those different licences. I have to pick one for Google Code, where I'd dump my project at to be gobbled up by the public. Yes, I mean to open source it.

Any of you licence savvy guys (and gals) care to help this poor bloke out? Perhaps this information would have been useful for others that aspire to share their projects, as well.

P.S.: By the way, if you guys (and gals, of course) know of any alternatives to Google Codes... I'd be willing to consider.
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2009, 02:09:04 PM »

I can't seem to find much information (in humane form) on licences. I have started a roguelike project in Ruby/Gosu, however I find myself overwhelmed by all those different licences. I have to pick one for Google Code, where I'd dump my project at to be gobbled up by the public. Yes, I mean to open source it.

Any of you licence savvy guys (and gals) care to help this poor bloke out? Perhaps this information would have been useful for others that aspire to share their projects, as well.

P.S.: By the way, if you guys (and gals, of course) know of any alternatives to Google Codes... I'd be willing to consider.


What questions do you have specifically? Are you confused by the terms? Are you not sure what licenses you need? 

If you're talking about an open source license for your own project, I did an FAQ covering some of the more common ones a while back:

http://underdevelopmentlaw.com/open-source-faq-part-i/

http://underdevelopmentlaw.com/open-source-faq-part-ii/

If you don't find the answers you need there let us know what you're looking for. Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2009, 10:48:03 PM »

Thank you, that was helpful Smiley I decided to go with MIT licence and forget about it.
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2009, 07:33:33 AM »

P.S.: By the way, if you guys (and gals, of course) know of any alternatives to Google Codes... I'd be willing to consider.

github is great for this, i use it for many gosu projects

e.g. http://github.com/rkachowski/blastlevania
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