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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon coburnw

Add MIT license

Open NickBorgers opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

This project cannot currently be used in other work because no license has been defined. I would really like to use it in a project, and am proposing MIT license if that would align with your desires @coburnw.

NickBorgers avatar Jul 16 '20 22:07 NickBorgers

Hi Nick,

Each file integral to the library that i wrote should already be prefaced with an mit license statement. I clipped vxi11.py, written by Alex Forencich, from his python-vxi11 client which i believe is an mit license. However i didnt write rpc.py and it wasnt clear to me what license it was published with.

If you wanted to do some sleuthing, either determining what license rpc.py should fall under or what we could replace it with, i'd be interested.

coburnw avatar Jul 20 '20 00:07 coburnw

@coburnw At this point I think this is overall the LICENSE file under which rpc.py is governed: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/LICENSE However, there are at least two complexities I see:

  • Mention of GPL-compliance, implying copyleft licensing applies
  • http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Demo/rpc/rpc.py was at least updated in 2018, which is a year not discussed in that LICENSE file

I will dig deeper when I have more time; I agree this is fuzzy.

I think looking for an alternative implementation is probably a wise course, that is probably what I will do.

NickBorgers avatar Jul 30 '20 14:07 NickBorgers