Markdown licensing

[Denis Defreyne]

On 13 Dec 2004, at 06:41, John Gruber wrote:

> I'm leaning towards releasing Markdown 1.0.1 under a BSD-style
> license instead of the current GPL. If you're not a license nerd,
> feel free not to care. The gist of it is that the BSD is
> significantly more liberal than the GPL, and would pretty much free
> everyone to go ahead and include Markdown in their own projects,
> regardless how their own projects are licensed.

I've been looking into the differences between the GPL and the BSD for 
a few days now, and I can assure that for something such as Markdown, 
BSD-style is the best way to go.

I believe I'm going to use the BSD-style license for my own project as 
well.

Regards,

amon-re

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