{"id":10,"date":"2006-01-30T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplepie.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/simplepie-has-a-new-license\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T22:30:16","slug":"simplepie-has-a-new-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/simplepie-has-a-new-license\/","title":{"rendered":"SimplePie has a new license"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/128\/license.png\" alt=\"License\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I had a couple of people ask me about the license that we were using.  Some suggested that since it was a Share-alike license, that they wouldn&#8217;t be able to use SimplePie in their project because the licenses were different.<\/p>\n<p>After taking another look, I discussed possible solutions with <a href=\"http:\/\/geoffers.uni.cc\">Geoffrey<\/a>.  He suggested I look at the licenses at opensource.org.  I looked through some of them&mdash;namely the zlib\/libpng license, as well as the MIT license, but I felt that they were both a bit unstructured for what I was looking for.  I went back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a> site, and decided to settle on the Creative Commons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.5\/\">Attribution License<\/a>.  Essentially, it&#8217;s as open as any of the &#8220;open source&#8221; licenses as far as use, copying, and distribution go, but it requires that users must leave all copyright notices intact&mdash;which was the main thing I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go.  You can use SimplePie however you want, in whatever projects you want, as long as the copyright notice in the source code stays in place.  Happy distributing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of people ask me about the license that we were using. Some suggested that since it was a Share-alike license, that they wouldn&#8217;t be able to use SimplePie in their project because the licenses were different. After taking another look, I discussed possible solutions with Geoffrey. He suggested I look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simplepie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplepie.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}