Question Recommended Licenses for your code?

[ozinm]

Hi All,
I was thinking of posting a load of modules, class modules and other bits and pieces I've built up over the years for others to use them.

In the past anything I've shared contained a small comment that confirms they can use it freely.
However I was thinking that perhaps something more standardized might be better.

Has anyone got any recommendations for licenses that would be suitable for MS Access code?

I wouldn't want to restrict people using code within commercial products or force them to publish all their code but it would be nice if they shared any improvements to the modules of mine they used.

I'd be really interested to know if anyone here has any experience with any open source or creative commons style licenses and any thoughts if any might be appropriate.

All the best

M.

 

[HiTechCoach]

M,

If you want people to contribute then you might consider posting it on www.codeplex.com.

Here is an example of an Access solution: http://analyzer.codeplex.com/

FWIW: I am currently developing a site to share VBA code for all application using VBA. It will be http://www.vbapedia.com when it goes live. If you have any suggestion on features you would like as a contributor, please let me know.

 

[ozinm]

Thanks for the codeplex link.
I'd still like to know what licences people recommend.
I can see the resources on codeplex use various types of licences.

At the moment I'm thinking LGPL is probably the way to go.

 

[HiTechCoach]

I'd still like to know what licences people recommend.
I can see the resources on codeplex use various types of licences.

At the moment I'm thinking LGPL is probably the way to go.

I have no recommendations on licenses at this time. It really depends are your strategy.

The GNU Project has two principal licenses to use for libraries. One is the GNU Lesser GPL; the other is the ordinary GNU GPL. The choice of license makes a big difference: using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs.

See:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html