LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain
Jari Aalto
jari.aalto@cante.net
Thu Oct 25 23:27:00 GMT 2012
2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina
On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote:
| > https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git
|
| Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side.
No worries, it caught my attention as it was an unusual choice, considering
the existing licencing policy in Open Source software projects.
| License in the base-files package contents.
| What would be more appropriate? GPLv3?
The relevant[1] big ones are GPL, BSD-2-clause, MIT and Apache. Trying to
avoid license fragmentation is always a good move.
I'll provide you a patch against Github to switch to GPL-3+.
Thank you for your work on improving the base-files project,
Jari
[1] For interested, the official license abbreviations are maintained
at the Linux Foundation SPDX Open Source License Registry
http://spdx.org/licenses/
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