Most appropriate OSS license for infrastructure code

Posted by Richard Szalay on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Richard Szalay
Published on 2012-09-04T05:05:32Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 9:48 UTC
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I'm looking into potentially releasing some infrastructure code (related to automated builds and deployments) as OSS and I'm curious about how the various OSS licenses effect it.

Specifically, LGPL prevents the code itself (part/whole) being modified into a commercial product (which is what I'm after), but allows it to be "linked to" in the creation of commercial products (also ok).

How does the "linked to" clause relate to infrastructure code, which is not deployed with the product itself? Would the application still be required to provide "appropriate legal notices" (which I'm not fussed over)?

Would I be better off looking at the Eclipse Public License?

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