[nycbug-talk] yahoo and bsd

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:19 PM, pete wright wrote:

> On 2/14/06, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2006, at 8:11 AM, pete wright wrote:
>>
>>> http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/
>>>
>>> AJAX, another web fad?  maybe...what i find interesting is that it's
>>> released under the BSD license.
>>>
>>> "All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been
>>> released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all
>>> uses."
>>>
>>> Maybe we should try ping someone at Yahoo! to see why they choose  
>>> the
>>> BSD license, good make some good marketing fodder...
>>
>> The GPL style licenses hardly make sense in the context of a web
>> browser.  Most people are using MIT/BSD style licenses for these
>> sorts of packages: Dojo Toolkit is dual AFL/BSD, MochiKit is MIT/BSD,
>> Prototype is MIT, etc.
>
> well we *all* know that ;)  i think it might be good publicity for
> people to see that Yahoo! is using the license....They are a
> commercial entity that wanted to release some tool kit's as open
> source.  Instead of going the Apple and Sun route of creating thier
> own license the used the BSD license.
>
> In any event I'll try to hack up some questions and email the people
> at Yahoo!  Not going to hold my breath on a response but we'll see.

Google's default license is also BSD.  They allow the author to  
choose whichever they want within reason, but BSD is the recommendation.

http://tinyurl.com/74tey

-bob