Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield

dotancohen writes "Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi Fish gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one's FOSS project, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."

Comments

You're in a maze of twisty little passages---

[Darth Sdlavrot]

all different.

A pirate appears and steals all your treasure.

Oh, wait that was supposed to be a game.

Worst article ever!

[vrmlguy]

I personally don't consider the AGPL as free (because I may wish to run it on my publicly accessible web-server and modify it)

Excuse me, but you don't run a license on a web server, you run code. The entire article is riddled with errors like this, making me distrust the author's ability to reason about things.

Plus, the web page is badly formatted. On my 1280x1024 monitor, over half the width of the screen is filled by a fat blue bar on each side. I feel like I'm reading a narrow newspaper column or something. A main article should occupy well over half the width of the display. I had to spend so much time scrolling, I couldn't concentrate on the article.

Overall, I made it about halfway through before I had to give up. Maybe this guy has an important point to make, but I sure couldn't see it.