Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “bsd”

Bookmarks

stevedekorte's vertexdb at master - GitHub

Graph database built on top of Tokyo Cabinet. Young, but has an un-fucked-up (BSD) license.

(bsd, database, graph, pycon, pycon2010, storage, tokyocabinet)

Working Without Copyleft

An interesting look at the choice to use a “weaker” open source license like the BSD, and some good arguments against the GPL.

(bsd, copyleft, gpl, licensing, opensource, programming)

Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center

Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.

(bsd, copyright, development, gpl, law, legal, licenses, mit, opensource, software)

Advice on relicensing from the SFLC [LWN.net]

Really, really useful for those taking BSD/MIT/etc. code and turning into GPL. I need to send this to the people GPL'ing parts of Django; so far nobody's doing it right.

(bsd, gpl, licenses)