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Add LICENSE file with CC-BY 4.0 license text #174

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This PR adds a LICENSE file with CC-BY 4.0 license text and adds the CC-BY 4.0 badge to the README file.

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The MIT license is intended for software. Usually documentation-only repositories like this one tend to use licenses more appropriate for prose. I'd recommend CC-BY 4.0 instead, as it closely mimics the properties of MIT:

CC-BY 4.0 License

Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Uphold

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

Make this a Markdown file (by adding the .md extension) so that the text is rendered properly, including making the link clickable, as seen above.

You may also add the badge to the README in this PR, with the following code:

[![Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license][license-badge-image]](license-badge-link)

[license-badge-image]: https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png
[license-badge-link]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license

@7patricia 7patricia changed the title Add LICENSE file with MIT license text Add LICENSE file with CC-BY 4.0 license text Oct 7, 2019
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LGTM, thanks!

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## CC-BY 4.0 License
Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Uphold
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Update the year range to cover 2020 😄

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Or use present?

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I've added a note in our internal board to discuss this with the team so we can standardize copyright notices across all our repos. But sure, no opposition to do that here.

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## CC-BY 4.0 License
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After offline disussion with @ruimarinho and @fixe, we agreed that CC-BY-NC may be more appropriate. Please make the relevant changes in this file and in the README.

[![Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license][license-badge-image]][license-badge-link]

[license-badge-image]: https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png
[license-badge-link]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Change all the URLs in this PR to use the https scheme.

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