I'm interested in people's thoughts on licenses for the jskFx code. My quick default choice was the GPL. Not for ideological reasons. My brief thoughts on the philosophy of open source licensing are that I think the GPL is the right choice for public computing infrastructure (OS's, compilers, network stacks, and so on), but other licenses have their place. I once had plans to commercialize the work, and it represents my most of my creative computing code, so it feels a bit odd to simply give it all away. The GPL seemed the best way to go.

But if I discover there is a real appetite for people to use the code in commercial context, but they are scared off by the GPL -- i.e, if it comes down to a choice between the GPL and the code actually being used -- I would be happy to go with the LGPL.

Feel free to drop me a line and tell me your thoughts one way or the other. I am at kevin dot atkinson at gmail dot com. Or submit a comment.

Nuther topic is the somewhat dishevelled state of the code, and the prospects for it being tidied and maintained in the future. As I mentioned in the previous post, it was written in tremendous haste, so it is frequently ripe for refactoring, and virtually without any formal test code. My fantasy is that some eager and capable coder becomes the maintainer, and takes up that challenge, since I am going to be working kooky long hours for the next year at least. Any takers?