First Steps to Licensing My Software?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Jan 18 21:04:45 UTC 2009


Marc Ferguson wrote:
> I'm a PHP Web developer and I'm working on a web application used in the
> medical industry.  I have a client and I'm building the application for
> them, but I've realized that I can actually market this app and possibly
> make a profit from it.  I would need to redevelop the app (knowing what I
> know now), but I don't know how to go about licensing this PHP/MySQL
> application.  I've heard of GPL, but I also know there are different
> flavors.  Can anyone point me into the right direction so I can actually
> own all this work I'm doing.  Thanks.

For a web app, you'll probably want to use the AGPL (Affero GPL) version 3.

        Kevin Kofler




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