[nycbug-talk] yahoo and bsd

[pete wright]

On 2/14/06, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
> 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

execellent!  so are gonna shoot them an email ;-)

seriously though, this might be a fun thing to investigate I'm going
to try to make an earnest effort to get something off to Yahoo!  I'll
email the list with results...etc.  I figure Yahoo! may be the best
bet to start with as they use a FreeBSD derived build on their farm.

-p

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