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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon idoco

LICENSE-file

Open sknebel opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Especially if you ask people for contributions, easy to find license information is important

(BTW: Neat project!)

sknebel avatar Jun 19 '15 21:06 sknebel

Thanks, I'm not an expert on the matter and would love to hear some suggestions! I'm looking for a licence that will give anyone the right to deploy their own instance and change it but will still keep this repository as something central for people to sync with and contribute new features.

Is there a licence model that will help encourage this kind of flow?

idoco avatar Jun 21 '15 08:06 idoco

Hi,You can use https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

GlobalHelp avatar Jun 23 '15 09:06 GlobalHelp

Github made this handy site showing the most popular options:

http://choosealicense.com/

If you really want to force people to share their changes there's also the AGPL (which requires people that put an instance online to share the changes they make to the server side as well), but that IMHO has higher chances of dissuading people from using it in the first places, since it is unfamiliar and there is a lot of uncertainty about what it entails exactly.

sknebel avatar Jun 25 '15 19:06 sknebel