what's the correct/best license for an open-source client library to a non-open-source service?

[Ken]

I'm in the processing of releasing open-source clients (including one for node) for a currently free but planned freemium service (which is not open source).  I don't care at all about people copying/modifying the code of the client (so would default to MIT or similar) but in its default mode the only thing the client does is communicate with the service and thus its use should adhere to the terms of service.  Anyone have pointers (or precedent) for the right kind of license to use for this?

--Ken

[Matt]

Just stick with MIT. It makes everyone the most comfortable.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Ken <ken.wo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm in the processing of releasing open-source clients (including one for node) for a currently free but planned freemium service (which is not open source).  I don't care at all about people copying/modifying the code of the client (so would default to MIT or similar) but in its default mode the only thing the client does is communicate with the service and thus its use should adhere to the terms of service.  Anyone have pointers (or precedent) for the right kind of license to use for this?

--Ken

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[Ben Noordhuis]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 23:09, Matt <hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just stick with MIT. It makes everyone the most comfortable.

Or the Apache 2.0 license if you want a patent grant. MIT, BSD and ISC
are fine too but they don't say anything about patents.

[Matt]

Yeah it's technically better, but I'm not sure I know of a single submarine patent case with the MIT license. Has there been any?