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Hey @zesterer, could you add a license to this repository? Is it MIT?
I'll need to think a little bit about what my goals are for the project and, therefore, what license to choose. Thanks for opening the issue!
Hey @zesterer, thanks for your work! I want to package this for nixpkgs and it would be easier if there is a license for the project.
@dit7ya Unfortunately, Tao is currently nowhere near being usable for non-trivial experiments. Perhaps 6 months down the line I'll have something worth using to write simple programs, but for now it's probably better if it were not packaged. I will decide on a license, however.
any updates on this?
Eeek! I forgot about this. I got frustrated with a bug related to generic effect typing and procrastinated from working on the project for a while. Hoping to pick it back up again once 1.0 of chumsky is released.
Any particular suggestions for licenses? I think some middle ground between MIT and GPL v3 might be sensible: permitting liberal use, but also not allow proprietary forking with no limits. I don't imagine the project will get far enough along for this to matter too much, but it's always good to plan ahead.
+1 on planning ahead!
I like the Mozilla Public license. It requires a header in each source file, AFAIK, but that's easily testable via a GitHub action. Besides that it offers copy left, but is permissive like MIT, IIRC.
See here: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mpl-2.0/
This is no legal advice of course, IANAL!