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What license to use for open source, if I want to guarantee attribution
1 point by _RPM on Feb 24, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
So, what license should I use if I want to be assured that anyone that uses the software will ship with the license that shows that I wrote the software?



Something really short, so your desire doesn't drown in a sea of verbiage.

Some people are assholes. Not many, IMSNHO. I assume you don't want to spend your days talking to assholes, or pay a lawyer to do that, so ignore that factor.

The others will do as you want if they can tell what you want and it's reasonable. If you pick a short, readable license your chances are good. One of the BSD licenses will do.


Why doesn't the GPL do what you want?




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