martes, 2 de marzo de 2010

Why a New BSD Licence?

As you can see in our googlecode page, we chose a New BSD License for our project. Generally, BSD licences are considered to favor IT developers, while GNU licences are considered to favor end users, so why did we choose the BSD license? The reason is simple. We don't to tie IT developers to use our code just for open-source projects, but we still want to make a contribution to the emerging Clojure community. More importantly, we don't know if we are going to need this code someday for a non-open project, e.g. when working for a Software Company. We might continue coding in Clojure, and we want to be able to incorporate this code in future profitable projects. We think that this a fair decision, since we are now taking advantage of many free Clojure examples and explanations available on the Web, and we think that we've got to contribute as well. Hopefully, we'll be helping others, but it's not part of our philosophy to continue this way forever, nor forcing others to do the same.

So please go on! you may check our code freely, and (re)use it as well for whatever a purpose you want, either open or close. Just read carefully the conditions of our license and respect them.

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