[cc-community] by-nd for software

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Sun Oct 21 04:32:34 EDT 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, NikNot wrote:

> On 10/21/07, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> Have you looked at the GNU LGPL?  It seems to be a good fit for you:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License
>>
>> It has the advantage of being designed for software, unlike the CC 
>> license suite.
>
> Yes, GNU (and BSD) would be my logical choices; however I have a problem 
> with both in that I need to prevent the modifications and derivatives - 
> this is the main reason I'm looking for the alternatives.

If there is a security problem with your library, why would you prevent 
users of it from sharing a version with that problem fixed?

-- Asheesh.

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