On 2011-03-15 07:22:50 Nick Douma wrote: >Hi, > >On 03/14/2011 06:15 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-03-14 11:12:35 Nick Douma wrote: >>> I have a question about developing software and licenses. I have taken a >>> MIT-licensed library (https://github.com/peej/tonic), and modified and >>> extended it. The result is a REST library for PowerDNS, which I would >>> like to release under GPL. However, it is not clear to me how I should >>> do it. >> >> Why not keep the existing MIT license? > >Because the GPL license is a better match for the project. How so? Using the MIT license makes it easier for you to share changes with upstream. It also makes it easier for users to switch between your fork and upstream. It also gives your users the same freedoms 0-3 that the GPL does. I'm a big fan of the GPL, especially version 3, and it's variants. I just don't understand your exact motivations for breaking compatibility with the existing library. What are you trying to allow / prevent? >So basically I add two lines for source files that I modified, Two things: Your copyright attribution, and a reference to the license (GPL). This may take more or less than two lines. >and the >original MIT license after that? ??? Please clarify. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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