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Please clarify the license.

Open DavidPhillipOster opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

I'd like to submit a pull request but I can only do that if this project is licensed under a license with few restrictions such as Apache2 or MIT

DavidPhillipOster avatar Oct 27 '17 18:10 DavidPhillipOster

No particular license, this is 'do with this what you will' public service code, like most of my projects here. A lot of the work is done in forks & derivatives and from time to time I do merge things back here; people are free to re-license their forks as appropriate for their use cases, but any code in this repo is assumed to be under no particular license or restrictions. Hope that helps 👍

steventroughtonsmith avatar Oct 27 '17 20:10 steventroughtonsmith

It is really helpful to users of the code if you specify a license. Without a license specified in the repo, then it technically is no license and cannot be used (especially by us in non-profit realms).

Through the github website, it is very easy to add a license:

  1. From the make page of the repo, click on the "Create new file"
  2. type the file name "license" and a "Choose a license template" appears.
  3. you are redirected to another page with a list of licenses. Based on your comment, Apache or MIT would do.
  4. Set the Year and Full name and click "Review and submit"

Thanks!

chrisvire avatar Nov 02 '17 17:11 chrisvire