[bip] License - was Re: domain name for community site

[Titus Brown]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:39:05AM -0500, Bruce Southey wrote:
-> Hi,
-> The use of the code module must follow the terms of the associated
-> license. So if you write code that references the core modules, then
-> your code must always abide by the terms of the code module license.

Hi Bruce,

I am not a lawyer, but...

This is not actually true.  For an extreme case, see the LGPL license,
where you are free to use their code as long as you don't modify it;
but if you modify their code, your changes come under their license.

Only a few licenses (like the GPL) require that your code must be
licensed under the same terms as the libraries that your code uses.
Most licenses do not, although some do place other restrictions on
what you can do with code that references libraries under that license.

The BSD license, in particular, does not place any restrictions on use
of code under the BSD license.

-> If you want to contribute code back to the core modules then it must
-> follow the same terms. Obviously if you don't like all the terms of
-> the 'core modules' license then you probably should be very careful
-> about what you contribute back.

Well, that's certainly true ;).

--titus