How to release a simple program
- by Zenya
What is the best practice for releasing a simple software? Suppose I created a very small simple and useful program or a tool and would like to share it with everyone by uploading it to my web-site.
Do I need a license and which one? (I read http://www.gnu.org/ and http://www.fsf.org/ but still cannot decide - there are too many of them.)
Do I need to put somewhere a copyright and what is the basic principles of creating "Copyright" string?
How can I make a user, who is going to download and install my program, to believe that my program doesn't contain viruses or a malicious code?