openlmi-scripts license

Russell Doty rdoty at redhat.com
Mon Jul 29 17:41:26 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:30 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> I was thinking about the license for the code in the openlmi-scripts
> project. Right now, it's listed upstream as LGPLv2+, but I think this
> might not be the ideal license here.
> 
> My reasoning is that our intended use for these scriptons is that
> administrators should be able to take them and adapt them for their
> own use cases. However, the LGPLv2 license *requires* that they make
> their modifications public. We want to encourage them to submit their
> changes back, but I think that for this use-case, the LGPLv2 may be a
> little too heavyweight.
Hmm, good point.
> 
> I'd suggest instead that we might want to choose the BSD (two- or
> three-clause variant) or ISC license for this project, as it will
> allow a bit more leeway on the part of the consumers.
What license do we use for scripts in other projects?
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