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20021204 Wednesday December 04, 2002

Best OSS License? I've gotten approval from Wrox to use struts-xdoclet as my sample app for my chapters on Security and Struts. I've also received committer rights from Ted Husted on the Struts project at SourceForge. I haven't checked anything in yet, because I still don't have a good name. While I think struts-xdoclet is a good descriptive name, it doesn't have the pizzazz I'm looking for. So the naming discussion continues. I'm thinking of actually leaving "Struts" out of the name as it seems to make other names more difficult when combined. I like the idea of kindling, which we use to start fires at the cabin, but I don't know if that makes a good app name.

Back to the point of this post, what are your recommendations for a good open source license? I don't really care how people use struts-xdoclet, so do I even need to license it? What happens if I don't include a license? Posted in Java at Dec 04 2002, 08:29:12 AM MST 5 Comments

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Personally, I'm sorta sick of "creative" Jakarta names. Axis, Maven, POI, James, etc. Just call it something I can remember and find later. ;-) -Russ

Posted by Russ on December 04, 2002 at 12:27 PM MST #

And on the license issue, it tends to be religious issue, so what's you're religion? As I understand them, BSD/Apache are the most liberal (take this code and do as you like, so long as you credit the author) while GPL tries to ensure no-one else makes money off your stuff.
(putting flamesuit on)

Posted by Lance on December 04, 2002 at 02:32 PM MST #

So are you suggesting I stay with the descriptive <em>struts-xdoclet</em> name? How about <em>simplify</em> or the name I've been thinking of for a year or so, when I started thinking about doing this - AppFuse? I've been trying to remember that, and it just came to me...

Posted by Raible on December 04, 2002 at 02:34 PM MST #

JPublish seems to have a pretty cool license, check out http://www.jpublish.org/license.html.

Posted by Raible on December 04, 2002 at 06:40 PM MST #

Thanks everyone ;-) for not jumping on my gross overstatement of GPL. Matt, the JPublish license looks pretty much like the Apache license, IIRC.

Posted by Lance on December 05, 2002 at 02:18 AM MST #

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