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License for the documentation?

Open avehtari opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

The loo repo has only GPL-3 license. @aloctavodia asked to re-use LOO glossary. Maybe we should add also explicit CC license for the text content? Stan manual is with CC-BY ND 4.0 license. What do you think? Ping @jgabry

avehtari avatar May 19 '21 14:05 avehtari

Yeah that sounds good to me. Should we add a License section to the readme that mentions this difference between code and doc?

And since we're on the topic of licenses, we have a relatively small number of people who have contributed code to loo, so we could potentially get everyone's permission to change the license for the whole repository from GPL-3 to something more permissive like BSD-3 or MIT if there's interest in that

jgabry avatar May 19 '21 16:05 jgabry

Should we add a License section to the readme that mentions this difference between code and doc?

Yes. And add the doc license to the LICENSE file (as in https://github.com/stan-dev/docs/blob/master/LICENSE) It seems other Stan repos also don't explicitly mention in README that doc is CC, but for example Stan users guide https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_26/stan-users-guide/index.html does expclicitly mention CC-BY ND 4.0, and many case studies (at least those made by Bob) explicitly mention license for code and text separately,

avehtari avatar May 20 '21 06:05 avehtari

@jgabry reminding about this which should be easy to fix

Adding that Stan users guide might switch from CC-BY-ND to CC-BY, so CC-BY would be good for the documentation in his package, too

avehtari avatar Mar 24 '23 13:03 avehtari

Thanks, just opened a PR: https://github.com/stan-dev/loo/pull/216

jgabry avatar Mar 24 '23 18:03 jgabry