Hello, I work on Pharo, an open source derivative of Smalltalk. Pharo is licensed under MIT hence most of my work needs to be licensed also under MIT.

However, time to time I have some projects in my free time that I made for my personal usage or for friends, and in those cases I am not OK with my work being used by for-profit project not giving anything back. I would very much prefer to use GPLv3 on those cases, but my understanding of licensing is very poor and I have been told there is a "virus" behavior on GPLv3 that may prevent people to use at all what I do, and that's not my intention.

Do you have any advice how to handle this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pharo is licensed under MIT hence most of my work needs to be licensed also under MIT.

I believe that this is not true. I thought that it is not mandatory for your work to be licensed under the MIT license in this case. Can anyone confirm this?

[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

sorry for the confusion, I meant that I work doing Pharo, and hence the license of my work is MIT, because that's the license chosen by the Pharo project. Of course MIT license means you can license your own work with whatever license you want, including proprietary licensing :)