Should I choose MIT or BSD 3-Clause for my engine? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ArsFireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone.

I'm developing an open-source visual novel engine. And I'm struggling to choose between the two licenses: MIT and BSD 3-Clause. I wasn't much about licenses until this moment, so I have to ask someone else. Which one should I pick and why, if someone knows?

Thank you in advance.

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[-] sith@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I'm a copyleft fan in theory, but...

In practice my experience is that anything GPL actually doesn't benefit the fellow worker/programmer as much. Since the worker probably works for an evil soulless company, he would have to use a different permissive software or buy something proprietary. I.e. if you choose copyleft you provide to a commons that is only accessible to a minority of workers. I also believe that most companies (even big tech) will try to contribute important or significant changes to permissive upstream projects instead of running their own private forks (the latter is much more annoying and expensive).

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

don't forget that the copyright holder is perfectly free to sell copies of their software under different licenses, OP could provide the GPL copy for free and clearly advertise that buying it under MIT or a non-open license is available.