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by zebra9978 3338 days ago
any particular reason you are using BSD license ? With all due respect, this does not cover a patent grant like the Apache license and could be a poison pill for companies to adopt.
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tomchristie 3338 days ago
I just had a quick scan over the licenses of other projects used for server side projects. Projects using BSD/MIT include Node, Go, Rails, Django, and Flask.

I'm happy with the choice.

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sandGorgon 3338 days ago
Sorry to interject - but that's not completely true. Go comes with a separate patent disclaimer.

https://golang.org/PATENTS

And IMHO nodejs is not a standard BSD license and comes with patent grant. That discussion went on for a year in the TSC . https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/LICENSE

In general, this stuff is not always evident. But the BSD license by itself is not as good as Apache.

While in doubt, use Apache !

P.S. fyi, doing this later is super heavy-duty hard.

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