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Should I choose MIT or BSD 3-Clause for my engine? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by 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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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Or from the other side, GPL would guarantee that you yourself (and your project's contributors) would still have access even if a good fork emerges.

Things happen over years or decades.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Do you mean that without GPL my access to my own project can vanish?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Your access to a popular and commercial fork might be non-existent. You would maybe not even mind that they're selling your code - possibly just wanting to tune it a bit, since you know how it used to work. But the fork can decide they're proprietary and they won't give you any source code.

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