Ask HN: What open source licenses do you prefer (and why)?

Re:Ask HN: What open source licenses do you prefer (and why)? by bowlich on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:40AM (#18707245)

Personal solo side projects that I'm just hacking on, I use MIT mostly because it seems simple. If someone wants to use or fork my software, I don't really care how or what they're doing with it.

None of my projects address significant enough space that I would figure they're being incorporated into anything of business value anyways.

If I have a GPL dependency, then I license it GPL. I would probably use GPL or Apache if I ever was working on a project that I actually thought would provide business value to someone or was going to grow any kind of community around it besides me.

I'd like attribution just because that seems nice, but I don't have the time or desire to figure out or enforce something like GPL.

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Re:Ask HN: What open source licenses do you prefer (and why)? by SamWhited on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:01AM (#18707514)

Thanks! I tend to agree with this reasoning and it's why I chose BSD (which is basically the same thing except it has a bulleted list of its requirements, which I liked). Is there a version of MIT+Patents or ISC+Patents or similar I wonder?

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