I'm rebuilding an app that I made few years ago to make it open-source and free from big company dependencies (for example replacing Firebase with Appwrite)... Now, since it's already live on Codeberg, I think it would be good to give it a license but I'm super new to FOSS licenses and so I don't know how to move... Which one would you suggest me?

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[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A political answer here:

if you want your code to be part of a movement for freedom, to be part of creating a "bubble of freedom" that will serve the world while protecting itself and its users, but fully serve only those whose interests are aligned with the objectives of freedom: go ^*^GPL.
if you don't give a f%ck, that you think code is not political and do it just for fun, go to a "business-friendly" (some call them "permissive" but i tend to see freedom to do business at somebody else's exprense rather "exploitative" than anything myself...), ^^BSD^^MIT*etc.

[–] federico3@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's incorrect to call BSD/MIT "not political". It allows proprietization and does not protect users and authors from tivoization, patents and trademarks.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I didnt write that "BSD/MIT is not political" as i agree with your statement. I said "if you think that code is not political", as it is a statement you often hear from ppl who don't want to think too much about license (or about anything else but code). I was describing a symptom, a state of mind (that make ppl opt for BSD and other "exploitative-free" licenses).