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Clarification of License

Open abetusk opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

As of this writing, this repository is licensed under an MIT license. In particular, the license terms state:

Permission is ... granted,... without restriction, ... to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software ...

Additionally, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has a FAQ addressing restrictions of use:

Can I restrict how people use an Open Source licensed program? No. The freedom to use the program for any purpose is part of the Open Source Definition. Open source licenses do not discriminate against fields of endeavor.

Yet, under your project heading in the README, you clearly state:

I do not authorize the use of anything generated by this project for the selling of NFTs.

Is the intent to make this project libre/free/open source? If so, could you remove the condition to not use your software for creating NFTs for resale?

If the intent is to restrict the use of your software for the creation of NFTs for sale, could you remove the MIT license and put an appropriate license?

I don't know much about this area, but doing a quick Google search yields the PAN License which is, as far as I can tell, very similar to the MIT license but removes the libre/free/open source aspect by disallowing use in NFTs.

abetusk avatar Aug 31 '22 03:08 abetusk