CREDIL Professional Services¶
Organizations that want to engage in open source licensing of computer
code often ask themselves, "what license should I pick? there are so many different ones"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_licenses and http://opensource.org/ list many options, and there is much
discussion about the relative merits of each model.
CREDIL works with open source on daily basis, with a multitude of Sponsor Members
who have varrying business needs. We have Maker Members that can provide
consulting to help decide on what the right licensing model is.
As much as some people want to hear about "the best" license, licenses are only
a tool towards a goal and it is often the case, that the goal must be carefully defined.
As such licensing is not a decision to be made in isolation -- it needs to take a holistic
view of the entire business.
One of the strengths of CREDIL's consulting members is that they
can help with the processes of figuring out what the organizational goals are,
and what community model (if any) will be. The legal fiddly-bits are just
codification of these decisions.