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There is no license for the docs?

Open BMaxV opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Like the title says, there is no license for the docs?

Clarification would be appreciated.

The website still says "© Copyright 2019 Carnegie Mellon University." is that true, do they actually hold the exclusive copyright?

BMaxV avatar Oct 06 '24 06:10 BMaxV

Since there is no license granting rights to users, the documentation is currently proprietary. This is definitely an issue for Panda as a free and open source project. Not sure why it has lacked a license for so long. But now most likely the next step is considering what type of license the documentation should be released under.

Since Panda is released under a permissive license, a Creative Commons License would be fitting as it is also a permissive license. The Godot engine's Sphinx documentation is licensed under the CC-BY-3.0.

maxrdz avatar Oct 06 '24 07:10 maxrdz