From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 8 13:05:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F073D1065672 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 13:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 835C78FC08 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 13:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 9354 invoked from network); 8 May 2009 12:38:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=RJBY34ZmFyl0QZvo8iGX5FDq47q92g4dkXlehDFzUPY6k2TctXv0NGOYVBndCP3D06SeyWT8omSsgRSNNaVVeHxHqg6HtlUvNh5o5xaNa1IAuVYG/CTntFfIUaYjFexG6aQt6m83/fJjW51XAV0AsnpudkuRqIcNf88jWI3W9dU= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.localnet) (mike.jeays@99.224.75.182 with plain) by smtp116.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 May 2009 12:38:22 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: ni4ZeVsVM1mX0Bkih5HT8uA01L7XQJS1ogIvFRYqS3MX1V91zo3arj_v3aoshZYJ2w-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:38:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <4A03BE9F.5050906@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <4A03BE9F.5050906@ibctech.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200905080838.20628.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Licensing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 13:05:03 -0000 On May 8, 2009 01:09:51 am Steve Bertrand wrote: > I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know > that there are people here who can guide me off-list. > > Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've > written numerous network automation programs (mostly in Perl), and have > developed several small patches for software written in C related to ISP > operations (including the OS itself). > > I'm looking for advice on how I can take all of my code, and license it > into the public domain. I'm sure that most people won't have any > interest in it, but I really want to ensure that what I have done is > freely accessible. > > All of my code is pretty well separated into different files that > contain different functions, so isolating portions of my programs that > use modules or functions that are external is not a problem. > > GPL seems too verbose legally for me. Can the BSD license fit into any > code, no matter what language it is in, and if so, can I have my code > overlooked by someone who can verify that the BSD license will fit? > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I would keep away from the term 'public domain', which means you would lose any rights to it whatsoever. I don't think the language makes any difference. Basically, the BSD license is OK if you don't mind others taking the code, modifying it and distributing binaries without making the modified source available. If you don't like the last part, consider the GPL.