Legend of Fiasco & Open Source Licensing

So David Anderson and I are slightly modifying and publishing Team X's 5 man-month opus, Legend of Fiasco. Since we developed it using XNA Game Studio I figured it would make sense to host it on Microsoft's SourceForge-wannabe, CodePlex. It's actually pretty nice, but we ran into a snafu. A huge snafu: licensing.

So what types does Codeplex offer?

• Apache License 2.0 by the Apache Foundation.


• Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) by Sun Microsystems.


• Eclipse Public License (EPL) by the Eclipse Foundation.


• GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 by the FSF. Codeplex doesn't seem to offer v3.


• GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) also by the FSF. They don't specify which version it is.


• Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) by Microsoft. I didn't know they had one!


• Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) also by Microsoft.


• Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) by the Mozilla Foundation.


• New BSD License by the Regents of the University of California.


• The MIT License by MIT, even though they're never mentioned.

So who knows about this stuff? The Open Source Initiative defines what it means to be Open Source and have definitions of the above licenses and many more. On Lamp has an article comparing the more popular ones.

Now that I've found my sources, it's time to read, and read, and read...