[Box Backup] License

Ben Summers boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Feb 26 13:43:12 GMT 2004


Hi,

I'm considering moving to a plain BSD license. I believe the current 
one is putting people off, and it's certainly preventing me from 
getting an account on sourceforge and all the publicity that entails.

The reason I'm not using one now is that I am trying to earn a living 
out of this software. By preventing others from using it to provide 
commercial services, I am protecting one particular option for myself. 
However, in the long term I don't need this, and it's beneficial to my 
project to have lots of people using it. And I'm not sure how likely 
anyone would be to pick it up and use it on a huge scale -- it would 
need some extra tools I'm developing to do that easily.

I would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. I think the software is 
now almost ready for a wider audience, and I'd like to get it out 
there.

Thanks,

Ben





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