Should I choose MIT or BSD 3-Clause for my engine? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ArsFireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone.

I'm developing an open-source visual novel engine. And I'm struggling to choose between the two licenses: MIT and BSD 3-Clause. I wasn't much about licenses until this moment, so I have to ask someone else. Which one should I pick and why, if someone knows?

Thank you in advance.

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[-] ArsFireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Long story short, it all started with an argument between me and a guy who thought only Japanese VN-related anything is usable normally, and that all Western VN-related software (Ren'Py included) are either clunky or laggy garbage. He also gave a Japanese novel engine called Light.vn (don't mind the link, it's the engine name) as an example (there is a killer feature in it: WYSIWYG editor). So I started my engine to prove him wrong.

After some time, I really saw that Ren'Py is not as fast as it was when I started to use it long ago. But that's because it uses modern Python, which is by itself not too fast and lightweight anymore.

That's why I write my engine in C and aim to make it much faster than Ren'Py and with better UX. Not speaking of a desire to create something meaningful myself.