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Clarify licenses

Open omasanori opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

My understanding is that a database, especially a list of facts, is not necessarily a work from copyright law point of view. (IANAL; TINLA)

However, specifying the licenses of work is vital to free and open source collaboration. My proposal is: CC0-1.0 for database and MIT or MIT/Apache-2.0 dual licenses for software.

omasanori avatar Feb 24 '23 23:02 omasanori

MIT is the default license in the Scheme and Lisp communities for code that doesn't need anything special.

I have no idea how copyright applies to bibliographies. A quick web search didn't turn up any info. If it is copyrighted as a "compilation", then ReadScheme's author probably holds that copyright.

lassik avatar Feb 25 '23 08:02 lassik

MIT is the default license in the Scheme and Lisp communities for code that doesn't need anything special.

Yup.

I have no idea how copyright applies to bibliographies. A quick web search didn't turn up any info. If it is copyrighted as a "compilation", then ReadScheme's author probably holds that copyright.

Agreed.

omasanori avatar Feb 25 '23 08:02 omasanori