Do you have any blanket advice for someone who might have some private code they want to open source, licensing-wise? I've seen some people say that it's overkill, and others saying that they don't understand the licenses enough to use them, or feel like they need a lawyer to have one.
It's not too hard to choose a license. Here is a video about it, for anyone who is interested. youtu.be/s7alZTsw298
TLDR: You choose either (1) GPL if you want a copyleft license for a whole program, (2) LGPL or MPL if you want a copyleft license for a library, and (3) Apache 2, BSD or MIT if you want a permissive license. And to demonstrate my (minimal) coding skills, here is my license picker! heathermeeker.com/license-picker-2-0/
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Hey Heather!
Do you have any blanket advice for someone who might have some private code they want to open source, licensing-wise? I've seen some people say that it's overkill, and others saying that they don't understand the licenses enough to use them, or feel like they need a lawyer to have one.
It's not too hard to choose a license. Here is a video about it, for anyone who is interested. youtu.be/s7alZTsw298
TLDR: You choose either (1) GPL if you want a copyleft license for a whole program, (2) LGPL or MPL if you want a copyleft license for a library, and (3) Apache 2, BSD or MIT if you want a permissive license. And to demonstrate my (minimal) coding skills, here is my license picker! heathermeeker.com/license-picker-2-0/
Thanks for the question!