Random Bytes gets its license

Ali Farshchian wrote to me earlier today in order to get permission to syndicate one of my blog entries for commercial purposes. Of course I was happy to comply, but it also reminded me that asking and receiving permission just to syndicate my stuff was probably a pretty expensive exercise for someone that just wanted to stay on the right side of "straight and narrow".

I've been meaning to setup a Creative Commons license for this website for a long-time and this seemed like a perfect excuse.

I went with "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0"  

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

This basically means that anyone can do whatever they want with stuff they find on this weblog, including make money from it, as long as they give me credit and distribute the resulting work under the same license. Basically, this is the GPL. (Which I probably would have gone with, but Larry Lessig has been waaay hipper than Richard Stallman lately).

So, from now on, if you want to use my stuff, feel free - but be sure to mention my name and the appropriate licensing voodoo!