[SOLVED] what's d best license for my program that I want to make available to the public
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Regarding multiple licenses, won't it just be useful for protecting the software and extending the number of people that can use it or like it?
It's just that the kind of freedom I want to give with the project is for example.. When a person wants to create a software based from it, he doesn't have to include any credit or bother including its license.
What I want is that when any person uses or studies my code, he is free to do anything he likes and not even be bothered by his or her conscience that what he learned although free was licensed and is sealed to be a free but chained software forever wherever it goes. Now I can even imagine transparent chains floating around our brains.
For this software, I would even like it better if it can yield its own license or rule without the original author or owner (konsolebox) holding a copyright on it. I want to make the software as free as possible but not as much as it being stolen or "blocked" like when replicators places a different license to their own versions.
If multiple licenses are the solution how can I apply them and do you know licenses that are applicable?
Actually, I really need a better idea. Do you have any?
Thanks again for the help guys. I really need them this time.
Isn't your objective served by declaring it 'Public Domain'? I'm no expert, I don't play one on TV, and I don't even look like one, but I have a hard time seeing what you are trying to protect. It sounds like your objective is to make your code as freely available to as many people for whatever purpose they see fit. Isn't any license actually limiting some aspect of this?
Inquiring minds would like to know...
--- rod.
OK I'll reconsider the public domain as an option. I just found a good book about the public domain. It's here: www.thepublicdomain.org. I'll report back my reaction regarding its contents.
Ok. The book seemed to have lots of info, comments and/or prepositions regarding the importance of the public domain and it's a great book but it didn't give direct answers regarding my problem about licenses.
Anyway if an intellectual property or anything else is sent to the public domain, it can no longer be owned by anyone right? If it will be free forever, I think the public domain is the one I am looking for.
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