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Could we have a more "friendly" license in this? #2

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takusuman opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 9 comments
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Could we have a more "friendly" license in this? #2

takusuman opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 9 comments
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As i've seen, this isn't licensed formally yet, so i was going to suggest that we use something like the z-lib license for plain-text documentation.
I think that a more copycenter license would help when linking/using content from here in something licensed under a liberal license, like a Wiki licensed under CC-BY, for example.

Sorry for any broken english, i'm still praticing it.

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I haven't looked into licensing yet. I also don't remember what the default is for github. I made my repository locally and uploaded to github as means of backup, portability and sharing with who ever is interested in my work.

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I made my repository locally and uploaded to github as means of backup, portability and sharing with who ever is interested in my work.

Well, that's the spirit of open source!

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dslm4515 commented Jul 6, 2021

How about:

GNU General Public License v3.0 ?

I just want a license such that anyone can share & modify code, as long as credit is given. BUT i do not want my work used in closed-source projects and I do not want to be liable for warranties (my work is a result of passion and not for making money)

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owl4ce commented Jul 8, 2021

How about:

GNU General Public License v3.0 ?

I just want a license such that anyone can share & modify code, as long as credit is given. BUT i do not want my work used in closed-source projects and I do not want to be liable for warranties (my work is a result of passion and not for making money)

I think suitable with MIT or BSD-2-Clause.

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owl4ce commented Jul 8, 2021

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dslm4515 commented Jul 8, 2021

I think suitable with MIT or BSD-2-Clause.

Now that I think about it, why should I worry... say if a company commercializes CMLFS into a OS for profit? From what i understand, GNU GPL3 requires that if CMLFS is used in another project, that project has to be licensed under GNU GPL3.

I suppose I would go for GNU GPL3 if wrote all the source code myself :P

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owl4ce commented Jul 8, 2021

Just choose the one that suits with you.

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dslm4515 commented Jul 8, 2021

MIT it is.

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takusuman commented Jul 9, 2021

I think suitable with MIT or BSD-2-Clause.

Now that I think about it, why should I worry... say if a company commercializes CMLFS into a OS for profit? From what i understand, GNU GPL3 requires that if CMLFS is used in another project, that project has to be licensed under GNU GPL3.

I suppose I would go for GNU GPL3 if wrote all the source code myself :P

I think that, for documentation, CC-BY 4.0 would fit perfectly.
Now, for code, i think GPL v2 would be nice; it's the same license that Linux itself and it's largely used, unlike GPL v3 which is a relatively recent license.

Edit: nvm, MIT suits this perfectly.

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