Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Maximal Usage Doctrine for Open Source. Yehuda Katz shares my own philosophy on Open Source licensing—stick BSD or MIT on it to maximise the number of people who can use it. The projects I work on are small enough that I don’t care if someone makes big private improvements and refuses to share them. I can see how much larger projects like Linux would disagree though.

# 6th January 2010, 5:23 pm / yehudakatz, open-source, bsd, mit, linux, licenses

Ext Core 3.0 Beta Released. The Ext JavaScript team have just released the core library (similar to jQuery or Prototype) under an MIT license. The rich GUI elements that go on top are still under the GPL.

# 5th April 2009, 8:17 pm / mit, extjs, javascript, extcore, gpl, licensing, open-source

M.I.T Card Information (via) Who’s bright idea was it to introduce a poorly secured swipe card system in a school full of hard-core techies?

# 25th April 2004, 8:58 pm / mit, security