[OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

[Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov]

I would have to echo that.  I do not see using code at work that does not 
have any licensing information attached.

Doug

Doug Newcomb 
USFWS
Raleigh, NC
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the 
official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the 
Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.



"Michael P. Gerlek" <mpg at flaxen.com> 
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07/27/2012 02:01 PM
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I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...

Puneet wrote:
> [...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by
> not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to 
encumber with 
> these complications.

Do you literally mean no license at all? That might be a mistake, if 
you're looking for others to adopt your code.

Having no license documentation in the code raises all sorts of red flags. 
 In my commercial or government work, I'd not allow use of any code whose 
provenance, author, and/or copyright status is at all unclear.
 
-mpg


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