As you may know, I publish a lot of code for others to use. Often I forget to specify a license for the code - and I get a few comment asking me what license it is under. So I have created a license page for both Bin-Co and OpenJS. I hate restricting use of my code - so I choose the most permissive one around - the BSD License.

I know that many people feel strongly about software license. I still get a lot of flank from my LUG because I prefer using BSD License over their favorite GPL.

GPL was not an option as most of my code are snippets that are meant to be used with other code. GPL will not allow my code to be used within proprietary projects. Another option is LGPL - but I still prefer BSD.

Basically, all scripts, codes and programs from any of my sites are in the BSD License. That means that you can do anything with the scripts - except claim that you wrote it. You can use, copy, sell, modify or whatever you want with it - but you cannot claim authorship.

Importance of Choosing a License

If you are planning to release your code publicly, it is very important that you say what license you are using. If you fail to specify a license, many people will not use your code. It was a big mistake waiting this long before putting up a license on my sites.

If you want help in deciding the license, these links should be of help…

• A list of the most popular licenses
• Simon Willison’s Licensing Issue - read the comments
• Pick a License, Any License
• QuirksMode Copyright - an example of a license page

More Links

• The WTFPL License
• The problem with BSD Style License according to Richard M. Stallman
• Copyright Explained - not about code licenses - but a must read if you are new to all this.

As you already know, I have made my move. Moving from one domain to another is not new to me - I have moved a lot before. Here is a small picture that will show all my ‘domain hops’…

http://binnyva.bizland.com/ (Dead now) - My first site.

http://binnyva.tripod.com/ - Started using Tripod when Bizland stopped my free account.

http://www.geocities.com/binnyva/ - Tripod became very slow due to all their ads - so I moved to Geocities.

http://binnyva.blogspot.com/ - Decided that I have to get into this ‘blog’ thing.

http://www.bin-co.com/ - Finally, got a credit card - thus making it possible to by web space/domain. Once I got the card - I did not stop with just one domain - I bought some more…

• http://www.binnyva.com/
• http://blog.binnyva.com/
• http://www.openjs.com/
• http://www.bin-co.com/blog/

Serious articles from the next post…

Welcome, one and all, to my new ..er.. old blog. Well, new location of the old blog. Liked the theme? All the WordPress themes were kinda beautiful. So I took the default wordpress theme(Kuberic, I think it was called) and, for the lack of a better term, desecrated it. You are viewing the results.

The Past

For those who are new to this blog, a bit of history - I have a blog at http://binnyva.blogspot.com/. I recently decided that I should move the blog to one of my own servers. I did not import the old posts to this site due to the issue of duplicate content.

The Future

From the next post onwards, the post will be duplicated here and in my Blogger site. At the end of this month, I will abandon the old blog and focus on this one.

Abandon does not mean that I will delete the blog or its contents - that will stay. I will stop posting there. I will still carry out some maintenance tasks like weeding out the spam, repling to comments etc. However, from next month, no more new content will appear there.

The Present

In short, Welcome All!