[NetBehaviour] Imperica catalogue

[Paul Squires]

Hi all,

Marc - thanks for your kind words.

James - good question!

Obviously the intention is to keep things as open as possible - and when
submitting items into the Imperica Createstore database, GPL is a licensing
option, as is EUPL (and many others). Re recommending EUPL, Wikipedia sums
it up quite nicely...

"Its [EUPL's] main goal is its focusing on being consistent with the
copyright law in the 27 Member States of the European Union, while retaining
compatibility with popular open-source software licences such as the GNU
General Public License."

... so that's why, really: it seemed that suggesting a license which was
consistent with both EU copyright law and the GPL was the right thing to do.

Cheers,
Paul





> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James Morris <james at jwm-art.net>
> To: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:06:06 +0100
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Imperica catalogue
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:38:00 +0100
> Paul Squires <paul.squires at perininetworks.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > About a fortnight ago, I put a note out to Netbehaviour, saying that
> > we're thinking of developing a big index of open source code/software
> > on Imperica, to serve the needs of creators, programmers, and
> > artists. Thanks all that added their thoughts and opinions - greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > The idea has been developed a little further and we've now made a
> > little announcement about it:
> >
> > http://www.imperica.com/createstore
> >
>
> Just curious, why do you suggest the EUPL for licensing code rather
> than more widely used licenses such as the GNU GPL?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EUPL
>
>
> Thanks,
> James.
>
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