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On Monday 03 October 2005 11:46, jody salt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to release one of my scripts as open source. > <snip> > > I want to make sure its liscenced properly - i.e. I > don't want other companies adapting it without > contributing. > > Anyone done it before? > > Any tips? > I suspect the General Public License would be suitable for what you want: basically it allows anyone to use the code for any purpose, but if they make any modification they must publish the source code (so you can incorporate their changes if you so wish). I won't suggest you read the full GPL as it's a bit heavy-going - the Wikipedia article should give you the key points: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL The GPL contains instructions telling you what you need to do to apply it to your software: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html#SEC4 Basically you just need to put a copyright tag and license notice at the top of each source file. Here's an example from one of my GPL'd projects, which is in PHP: http://tinyurl.com/93k86 There are of course other licenses, which you may need to look at if you feel the GPL isn't suitable. I know there are quite a few people on the list who have published software under a Free/Open Source license, so just ask if you have any more queries. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html