Picking a license

[Carl Banks]

On May 6, 4:56 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> > In article <4BE05D75.7030... at msn.com>,
> > Rouslan Korneychuk  <rousl... at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > >The only question I have now is what about licensing? Is that
> > >something I need to worry about? Should I go with LGPL, MIT, or
> > >something else?
>
> > Which license you use depends partly on your political philosophy.
>
> Yes.
>
> Unless you place such a low value the freedom of your users that you'd
> allow proprietary derivatives of your work to remove the freedoms you've
> taken care to grant, then you should choose a copyleft license like the
> GPL.

GPL is about fighting a holy war against commercial software.

People who esteem their users give them freedom to use software
however they see fit, including combining it with proprietary
software.

Carl Banks