Open-source FRC code

[tajmorton]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

I really hope Kevin opens up his licensing a bit, but he does not want commercial use, and using the GPL would allow whatever commercial use, anywhere.

There's a myriad of different open source licenses (http://opensource.org/licenses). I'm not sure if there are any that explicitly deny commercial use, but you can always modify a license and add whatever restrictions you want to it.

The GPL says that if you use GPL'd code in your software, your software must also be GPL'd. So, for a company to use your GPL'd code, they would have to open source their code as well.

The BSD license (which might be what you're thinking of?) basically says, "do what you want to with this code--but give me some credit somewhere."

There are some Creative Commons licenses which explicitly deny commercial use, but they're not recommended for source code (I'm not sure why).

Oh, the wonders of open source licensing. :-)
- Taj