I am trying to choose the perfect license for my project....
After doing research I ran into a question which I could not find an answer to:
My question:
What's the difference between bazaar-style and cathedral-style open source projects?
Open Source Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people organizing, marketing or licensing open source development projects. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this communityThe idea of the Cathedral and the Bazaar is a metaphor from the book named 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' from open-source evangelist Eric S. Raymond.
The metaphor describes two different development-models for projects (not necessarily open source).
The cathedral is a centralized effort. A defined group of developers (or even only a single one) is developing the software. Nobody else is involved and ideas or patches from the outside will be ignored. Usually proprietary software is developed that way, but this is not exclusively.
The Bazaar makes the development open. Many people are tinkering with the source code without central control. Many are contributing.
In reality many OSS-projects are in between the two models.