From f314eba7fc6b82cb0e92c4bcf43b6da038a6a86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glen Whitney Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:36:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update Licensing --- Licensing.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Licensing.md b/Licensing.md index f463f79..100494c 100644 --- a/Licensing.md +++ b/Licensing.md @@ -8,4 +8,6 @@ Thoughts: the main reason to open-source is to invite and encourage enthusiasts - If an ed-tech company started offering a closed-source fork of dyna3 alongside their other products, how would we feel? -Thoughts: This is a bit hard to envision, as it seems quite unlikely. On the other hand GeoGebra has gone from basically a fully open-source community project to something that seems/feels much more commercial and closed. I'd be pretty bummed if some company created major new features/improvements that the open-source side would have to reimplement to distribute freely. To prevent such a thing, we'd basically need some version of the GPL or maybe the Mozilla Public License, is that right? I.e., what's known as a "copyleft", rather than just a "permissive" license? I think I've read that projects with permissive licenses, all else being equal, tend to get more interest/activity, because people just don't need to worry much about those licenses? Does that seem right/plausible? \ No newline at end of file +Thoughts: This is a bit hard to envision, as it seems quite unlikely. On the other hand GeoGebra has gone from basically a fully open-source community project to something that seems/feels much more commercial and closed. I'd be pretty bummed if some company created major new features/improvements that the open-source side would have to reimplement to distribute freely. To prevent such a thing, we'd basically need some version of the GPL or maybe the Mozilla Public License, is that right? I.e., what's known as a "copyleft", rather than just a "permissive" license? I think I've read that projects with permissive licenses, all else being equal, tend to get more interest/activity, because people just don't need to worry much about those licenses? Does that seem right/plausible? + +Here is one [guide to licenses]( https://choosealicense.com/licenses/), that seems to concur with the above musings. Reading it, the leading candidates seem to be either the Mozilla Public License or the Apache License -- those seem to be at the boundary contemplated above. \ No newline at end of file