Re: ChillDB License

thanks Magnus, Anthony - that's all going in my quickref 'solutions  
log'... DE

> Public domain is "people can do whatever they want with it".
>
> BSD is "people can do whatever they want with it, but I retain
> copyright and they must credit me". (so the copyright part isn't that
> important there).
>
> GPL is "people can do whatever they want with it as long as they keep
> it in GPL and credit me".

> BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved.
> Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS  
> means generally an accepted free software license or and accepted  
> open-source license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses  
> like the GPL-style licenses force the code to remain open if an  
> entity modifies the source _and_ redistributes the subsequent  
> binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus sometimes seen as  
> more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of freedom  
> (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel  
> that BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer.
>
> If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with
> (L)GPL2
> (L)GPL3
> Apache
> MIT
> BSD
>