On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:15 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

I'm compiling Camping links... please can someone refresh my memory:

how does this:

https://github.com/igravious/markaby

relate to this:

https://github.com/camping/mab

?

DaveE

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Hey there,

BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved.
Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS means generally an accepted free software license or and accepted open-source license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses like the GPL-style licenses force the code to remain open if an entity modifies the source _and_ redistributes the subsequent binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus sometimes seen as more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of freedom (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel that BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer.

If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with
(L)GPL2
(L)GPL3
Apache
MIT
BSD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences

If you want to free it to the four corners of the earth but not have it FOSS then public domain it - certain high profile pieces of software are public domain (Sqlite I think?) but not many.

Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this.

On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:57 PM, Anthony Durity wrote:

Hey there,

BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved.
Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS means generally an accepted free software license or and accepted open-source license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses like the GPL-style licenses force the code to remain open if an entity modifies the source _and_ redistributes the subsequent binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus sometimes seen as more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of freedom (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel that BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer.

If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with
(L)GPL2
(L)GPL3
Apache
MIT
BSD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences

If you want to free it to the four corners of the earth but not have it FOSS then public domain it - certain high profile pieces of software are public domain (Sqlite I think?) but not many.

Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jenna Fox <a <at> creativepony.com> wrote:

A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a software license on it, so I guess it's not technically FOSS yet. What licenses are good? BSD? Public Domain?

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I made those changes to Markaby to be able to use it with HTML5.

I couldn't be bothered rewriting my code to get it to use mab or whatever is the current flavour of the day for spitting out HTML.

On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:14 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

thanks - a compact but completely-formed answer. So 'mab is the Camping-specific markaby' would be an accurate statement? - DaveE

Mab is going to be the new one going forward. If I remember right, the reasons for this were:

1) Markaby isn't very well maintained these days

2) Markaby is all about xhtml, which is totally irrelevant to the modern web.

3) Markaby doesn't explicitly have a license allowing us to do stuff to it.

I think that's what the deal was. 

Maybe this has changed since then, maybe not. For a time new installations of camping wouldn't work, due to Markaby becoming incompatible with an update to it's dependancy Builder.

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Jenna

On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:15 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

I'm compiling Camping links... please can someone refresh my memory:

how does this:

https://github.com/igravious/markaby

relate to this:

https://github.com/camping/mab

?

DaveE

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Camping-list <at> rubyforge.org

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list

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On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:19 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

You could read Stallman's CopyLeft idea http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ to prevent unscrupulous individual from turning your code into a profitable product (I think) - DaveE

This is very helpful! I don't really mind though. Maybe public domain is best. I'm not a big believer in copyright.

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Jenna

On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 10:57 PM, Anthony Durity wrote:

Hey there,

BSD uses full copyright, it's like saying all rights reserved.
Public domain means no rights reserved, it's not a FOSS thing - FOSS means generally an accepted free software license or and accepted open-source license. Public domain isn't a license per se. Licenses like the GPL-style licenses force the code to remain open if an entity modifies the source _and_ redistributes the subsequent binaries. BSD does not enforce this. BSD is thus sometimes seen as more corporate-friendly. Depending on your notion of freedom (freedom from something or freedom to do something) you may feel that BSD-style is freer or GPL-like is freer.

If you want to have a FOSS license then normally go with
(L)GPL2
(L)GPL3
Apache
MIT
BSD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_licences

If you want to free it to the four corners of the earth but not have it FOSS then public domain it - certain high profile pieces of software are public domain (Sqlite I think?) but not many.

Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jenna Fox <a <at> creativepony.com> wrote:

A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a software license on it, so I guess it's not technically FOSS yet. What licenses are good? BSD? Public Domain?

—

Jenna

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