Do you build OSS - which software license do you use?
Just interested in hearing your thoughts, I recently started a new open source project on Github and went with MIT license.
Then while I was reading around the web I realized, it's better to use a GPL flavour...
You can use my software for commercial purposes
You can modify my code and/or fork it
You can distribute it without asking for my permission
...as long as you keep the license intact.
I am definitely NOT an expert in software licenses, anyone has some war-stories to share? What do you all think?
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We went with Apache 2.0 - https://github.com/multycloud/multy. Our idea is to keep the core completely open source and free to use with any modifications and later down the line have some part of the code not as permissive (but potentially still open source).
Thank you, gonna check it out!
I literally took for granted that the MIT license was the best. It is extremely permissive. But at what cost?
We used Apache License 2.0 for building which is permissive while requiring users to state any major changes they've made to the code.
I like that! What product did you build/building?
It's been working well for us! Our team built the Nitric framework for application development and auto-provisioning infrastructure for any cloud. Check the framework out at https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric if any interest.
What product are you building?
Checking out your project, I am working on https://github.com/sfdc-stripe - a stripe app that is completely open source as a boilerplate for b2b stripe apps