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License question

Open ryandesign opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

The license says:

https://github.com/cdcseacave/TinyEXIF/blob/ccd676f1b91d59da40b4f9c1edda4408fb65e62e/README.md?plain=1#L51

Did TinyEXIF originate from or is it associated with FreeBSD or was this license text just coincidentally copied from FreeBSD? If the latter, I recommend replacing the license text with the standard 2-clause BSD license which does not mention FreeBSD.

Also, there's a formatting issue. You're displaying the clauses in a bulleted list when it should be a numbered list:

https://github.com/cdcseacave/TinyEXIF/blob/ccd676f1b91d59da40b4f9c1edda4408fb65e62e/README.md?plain=1#L42-L46

The license text exists in many places in this repository (README.md, TinyExif.cpp, TinyExif.h) and should be updated everywhere.

You may need to wait for the developer of easyexif, from which TinyEXIF was forked, to clarify what their intentions with the license were so that you can then make corresponding changes. See https://github.com/mayanklahiri/easyexif/issues/43.

It's preferable for the license to be in a separate LICENSE file (as it was in easyexif) rather than at the bottom of your README. This enables users to find it quickly and it also enables GitHub to display the license on the GitHub project page.

ryandesign avatar Dec 03 '24 10:12 ryandesign