Issue the project with a License

[bebehei]

What License do we want? Why?

[fwsmit]

MIT or BSD, because they're simple.

[Stunkymonkey]

Am i right, that the only difference is: with BSD others have to cite this project, with MIT they can redistribute without citing us.

[fwsmit]

With BSD software you have to distribute the licence with it. With MIT you don't. The licence contains the name of the copyright holder.
BSD-2-Clause
BSD-3-Clause
MIT

[bebehei]

I only have little experience with choosing a proper license. I've dealt now the first time a bit deeper with software licenses.

A few notes:

• I always thought you can even relicence software with with MIT-Licence. I always expected it to be a license kinda like "do what the fuck you want licence". But no, you can only relicense it to a stricter one. And you have to pass the license on.
• If we choose BSD, I'd definitely prefer BSD-3-Clause over BSD-2-Clause.
• Any thoughts about GPL-Licenses?
• What about Apache LIcense? The apache License has a nice "feature", that any contribution sent to the project, is automatically licensed as "Apache" by the contributor. So there shall not be a DCO/CLA needed.