Please add a license to this package

[docwilmot]

Hello, thanks for all your work, it is really appreciated. I am with the Backdrop CMS team (Backdrop is a fork of Drupal), and I ported Mailchimp for Backdrop, based on the Drupal module. I am in the process of updating the code to the latest Mailchimp Drupal version, but Backdrop has by principle encouraged bundling external libraries directly into contrib modules to ease the user experience, more so in recent times, since after my initial port, which used Libraries module. I couldnt find any statement about licencing on your libraries so thought I'd ask if this is permitted. Or if you had any objection to this technically of philosophically. Would be grateful for your thoughts. Thanks.

[xurizaemon]

@docwilmot thanks for opening this. We've identified that this package is an unlicensed dependency of one of our projects as well. We're using it as a dependency of the Mailchimp module for Drupal 9. Can I suggest we rename this issue to "Please add a license to this package", since the issue IMO affects any project wishing to use the library which needs to consider component licensing.

By having no license, my understanding is that the "default state" of projects is "all rights reserved" (IANAL, likely varies by jurisdiction, caveat caveat). This introduces considerations both for those wanting to contribute to the package, and those wanting to consume it.

[docwilmot]

Good idea, done. But after 2 years actually forgot about this, wonder if there will be a response.

[xurizaemon]

Thanks! It's worth a try - I've also flagged the issue at https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp/issues/3230265 because the dependency affects users of that module, hoping someone from Thinkshout will notice the omission and be able to address it.

It would be trivial to do but presumptive of me to MR a license in, so I'm hoping drawing the organisation's attention to (IMO likely unintended) missing license is a useful way to contribute to fixing it.

Some other Mailchimp client libs and their licenses:

Library	License
python-mailchimp-api	MIT
drewm/mailchimp-api	MIT
nztim/mailchimp-api	MIT
ebizmarts/mailchimp-lib	MIT

Mailchimp's own client libraries use a Mailchimp-specific license which probably isn't appropriate here.

[Greg-Boggs]

I'm guessing this got over looked because Drupal modules have the license attached automatically during packaging. So, I created a Pull Request.

[bbrala]

I would say add MIT, but we really need a maintainer to chip in here :)

[xurizaemon]

Fixed via https://github.com/thinkshout/mailchimp-api-php/pull/104

This issue can be closed now :) Thanks!