[GLLUG] Burnbox Future

[Richard Houser]

Clay Dowling wrote:
> Okay, I completely forgot to bring this up last night when we were all
> assembled, but I'm gonna bring it up here.
> 
> At the con and afterwards I had a few requests for copies of the burnbox
> software, which is a very cool thing.  The question is, how do we want to
> handle it?  In the strictest sense, because no money changed hands,
> Burnbox is my intellectual property and I can do with it as I darned well
> please.  The reality is though that it's always been done as something for
> GLLUG, and I want to see how the group feels about it.
> 
> The obvious thing to do is release it as an open source project.  As
> somebody who is trying to bring a source code management tool to market,
> I'd also like to host the project on my server, or at least a server
> running my software suite (subversion, CVSTrac and my SQLite3
> authentication module).  Is this a route that would be acceptable, or do
> people have strong feelings that it should be released in some other
> manner?
> 
> Clay

As long as you have sole copyright to all the code, I think your best 
bet would be an OSS license like the GPL.  I doubt anyone would have 
issues with you selling commercial licenses as well, like MySQL does. 
Avoid the BSD style licenses like the plague if you have any interest in 
selling it to commercial parties at a future time.