[Haskell-cafe] Licenses and dependencies

[Alexander Berntsen]

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On 11/01/14 19:44, Ben Foppa wrote:
> Essentially my goal is to waive all intellectual property rights to
>  most of my Haskell projects, to the extent that, were I to 
> unintentionally sign away my intellectual property, my open-source
>  contributions would be safe - what's the easiest way to do this?
"Intellectual property" is not really a thing[0]. What it sounds like
you want to do is ensure that your code stays free software. For this
you need a licence that prevents people from using it for proprietary
development. Here I recommend the GNU GPL[1]. But see [2] for a short
introduction to "what licence should I be using".

On 12/01/14 00:06, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> GPL [has] never been tested in court.
This is false[3].

[0]  <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr>
[1]  <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#GPL>
[2]  <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html>
[3]  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL#Legal_status> for some
specific cases
- -- 
Alexander
alexander at plaimi.net
http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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