Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield

dotancohen writes "Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi Fish gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one's FOSS project, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."

Writing Freecell?

[stillnotelf]

If we're rewriting freecell, shouldn't that be a license minesweeper, not a license minefield?

simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Simply ask that man with the beard.

Re:simple

[maxwell demon]

Simply ask that man with the beard.

If it is a minefield, it may indeed be a good idea to ask Osama bin Laden. After all, he should have experience in explosives.