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2018-12-21 01:34 69004240 Anonymous Which license to use? LGPL? (1200px-LGPLv3_Logo.svg.png 1200x522 74kB)
I wrote some code that is 100% mine and I want to release it as open source. But I know nothing about those licenses? How does one apply a license to a source code? Can I release it as "public domain"? Or do I need a license. I read somewhere that LGPL is one of the most permissive.

3 min later 69004295 Anonymous
>>69004240 https://choosealicense.com/ you can public domain if you want, just don't do "no license" because in most legal jurisdictions this means "all rights reserved" if you want to use LGPL, first learn about the GPL, then know that the LGPL is a version of the GPL but with some special exceptions included for libraries

6 min later 69004339 Anonymous
>>69004295 Thx anon. Already found about this MIT license. Good enough for me.

6 min later 69004342 Anonymous
>>69004240 WTFPL Scarcity is ending. You need your code to be post-economy proof.

27 min later 69004610 Anonymous
>>69004240 Non British common law based nations have a problem with public domain. ISC is simple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_l icense

1 hours later 69005005 Anonymous
>>69004240 Do you want people to include a copyright notice when using your code? >no Use the zlib license. If you also don't care what people do with your source code, use CC0. >yes If you want people to make their changes to your code available, use the Mozilla Public License (2.0). It's more permissive than the LGPL, in that it does basically the same thing without making compliance a pain in the ass. If you don't care for copyleft, I think the current best practice is to use the Apache License (2.0) unless you have a good reason not to. If you want to be maximally permissive - with all the benefits and pitfalls that come with this - you should use the MIT License. Things you should generally not do: >forget to include a license >dedicate anything to the public domain >use a meme license like WTFPL or the Unlicense >use the GPL, unless you want to sell commercial licenses or somethinhg

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