Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for February 11th through February 16th:

• Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? – 1. Gift license: The Apache License 2.0

  This is similar to the MIT and BSD licenses, but provides a little more protection from software patent lawsuits to the Open Source developer.
  2. Sharing-with-rules license: GPL 3
  Descended from the GPL, the most popular Open Source license, this license is updated to deal with the vastly larger amount of copyright and case law that exists today.
  3. In-between license: LGPL 3
  4. Affero GPL
  So, my set includes two base licenses: Apache 2.0 and GPL3, and two derivatives of GPL3: LGPL3 and Affero GPL3. To use them, you'll have to learn two licenses, and two sets of variations on one of those licenses. All of them are compatible with each other.

• 5 Online Political Resources Everyone Should Know About – ReadWriteWeb –
• Designing Web Interfaces: Supporting Screencasts – For many of the figures it is helpful to see the actual interface in action. This collection contains screencast movies for some of the figures in the book. Additional screencasts that serve as examples for the chapter are also included.