Selecting a software license requires a conscious effort because of the various rights and obligations that come with it. For me, the most important aspects of a license were
- using an existing open source license,
- commercial use clauses,
- patent protection,
- the obligation to disclose changes,
- the ability to revoke the license as the sole copyright holder, and
- compatibility with BSD-licensed code.
In this blog post I elaborate on why I chose the Mozilla Public License 2.0 for my eigensolver DCGeig based on these features.