Petit Computer Wiki:Licenses

Petit Computer allows your program to be open source. However, you're pretty much forced to anyway. If you want your program to be closed source, don't bother posting here. We ONLY accept entries that are intended to be open source and provide free of charge.

To apply a license to your program, copy and modify one of the licenses below to your program page.

MIT License (Simple and Permissive)
This is the preferred license in the Petit Computer Wiki. It's basically allows the consumer to use your code free of charge and do whatever they wish with it as long as proper credit is given and not hold you liable.

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 The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Apache License 2.0 (Near-Useless Here)
This is very similar to the MIT license but use only if you are concerned about patents. However, patents aren't used at all in the Petit Computer Wiki (so far). This is posted here only for reference. If you want to use this license but have not concerns for patents, please consider using the MIT license instead.

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Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

No License (Default if no license is posted.)
Finally, don't want a license? You don't have to! However, this creates even more legal complications. Default copyright laws will apply, meaning you are only allowing the consumer to use the code. They may modify the code but only for private use. If you want to share your work to the community to modify and redistribute, please reconsider using one of the above licenses.