Markdown licensing

[Bob Hutchison]

On Dec 13, 2004, at 12:41 AM, John Gruber wrote:

>
> If anyone has any thoughts on this, now would be the time to speak
> up.
>

I have already delivered one project with textile rather than Markdown 
to a client because of the GPL, and removed Markdown from another 
project. I would prefer a BSD style license (though get it from 
opensource.org as has been pointed out in another message). LGPL might 
work too, but it has a funny notion of linking that might make it 
tricky for Markdown. There is also the CPL 
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php> that might be worth 
looking at.

I have *nothing* against the GPL nor anybody who uses it, so don't get 
me wrong on this. This is your tool you license as you see fit. And the 
GPL does have a few advantages.

Cheers,
Bob

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