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Specify which license is being used for this project #23

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ghost opened this issue Apr 10, 2021 · 3 comments
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Specify which license is being used for this project #23

ghost opened this issue Apr 10, 2021 · 3 comments

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ghost commented Apr 10, 2021

There is no license text at all and the text in the readme.md file says that "License is Creative Commons by SA" but what did author mean? There are several versions of CC BY-SA: be specific about which Creative Commons license is being used. The absence of the clear license text may prevent developers from contributing to this project. The most recent one is Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International which is marked as "libre" at SPDX licenses list. We may choose that license by default for all files with no copyright and licensing information embedded. The simplest way is to modify the text in readme.md file like this:

markdown format:

Used licenses:
* cores and ugophy (gopher browser) each have it's own licenses
* files without explicit license are under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)) license

preview:

Used licenses:

  • cores and ugophy (gopher browser) each have it's own licenses
  • files without explicit license are under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license

When contributing to this project I follow REUSE recomendations on how to specify copyright and licensing information (at least in sdk folder of this project). For example:

The decision must be done by the respective owners of affected parts of this project.

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ghost commented Apr 10, 2021

When there will be an explicit license specified for the project I can continue moving used tools (often duplicated all over the project's folders) into a single SDK with proper copyright and licensing notices. This will ease further development. Thank you for understanding.

@ghost ghost pinned this issue Apr 11, 2021
@ghost ghost changed the title Specify which Creative Commons license is being used for this project Specify which license is being used for this project Apr 12, 2021
ghost pushed a commit that referenced this issue Apr 20, 2021
Merge pull request #38 from ivan-tat/master
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Use GPLv3 as default as I said because it's the one used by McLeod on his core and I have not preferences on my tools

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ghost commented Apr 25, 2021

Ok. I'll continue adding provided sources from you under GPLv3.

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