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Choose a license for ActivitySim #1
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If we want to maximize the incentives to participate and flexibility, and be willing to incur some risk that a private company could take the code and create a commercial version, I would recommend a BSD license. If we want to minimize the risk of a private company being able to benefit from this, at the cost of reduced flexibility and more impediments to participation, I would recommend GPL or AGPL. I'm leaning towards the permissive flexibility of BSD. Maximize incentives to participate, and don't worry if anyone else benefits. Hopefully they will contribute. |
I have little experience in these matters, but I am not concerned with the risk of a private company taking the work and trying to profit from it. We're a small community and, as Paul says, hopefully they will contribute. I'd trust y'all's recommendation. |
I agree with a more permissive license.
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I'm all for it, in the spirit of enhanced permissive flexibility |
Assuming its not too late to chime in on this thread, I would prefer the University of Illinois / NCSA license. It is based on the BSD license, but I think it more clearly lays out the copyright holder. It also makes it clear that a third-party cannot imply an endorsement from AMPORF. Although, full disclaimer, I am an alum of this great institution. If a final decision has already been applied, I will defer to that decision. |
The BSD 3-clause license also does not have a third-party endorsement And you might imagine I like using the BSD license over MIT or University Paul On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Clint Daniels notifications@github.com
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Okay, I'm fine. Let's go with BSD 3 Clause. Clint Daniels On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:42 PM, "Paul Waddell" <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com> wrote: The BSD 3-clause license also does not have a third-party endorsement And you might imagine I like using the BSD license over MIT or University Paul On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Clint Daniels <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com>
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Merging upstream changes into develop branch
BayDAG Contribution #1: Auto Ownership Processing
Estimation enhancements pt1
We should choose a license for ActivitySim. Here are some common ones: http://opensource.org/licenses
UrbanSim is currently covered by the GNU Affero GPL: http://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0
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