This has been a fight I have been having for a while now.
I have been working on a small note storage application called CloudPad in my spare time for a few months now. It has reached a state where it is now ready for Public Beta and this has forced the issue on how to release and under what licence.
The GPL licence is a scary license if you come from a proprietary code background. In effect you give up a fair amount of control over how your work is used. Anyone is free to fork your code and release their own version as long as they make their changes available under GPL.
I originally looked for a licence that would allow me to make the code available but would not allow forked code but they all just felt wrong. In the end I realised that the GPL carries with it benefits. The ability to fork is actually where its strength lies. Without it Linux would not be the vibrant melting pot that exists today.
It was time for me to follow through with my views and release under GPL. So as of now CloudPad and its C# source code and unit tests are available under my area on SourceForge. It is currently only available in source form but installers will be available soon.
Enjoy!
