License clarification

[mofojed]

The LICENSE file in the project says it's an Apache license, but in the README.md, it says:

The style guides in this project are licensed under the CC-By 3.0 License, which encourages you to share these documents. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more details.

This seems to conflict. What does the Apache license cover?

[gpshead]

My gut feeling is that we mean Apache for any code in this repo and that CC license for the documents. I'll ask for clarification internally.

[marbre]

Any update on this?

[gpshead]

@shicks & @dseomn looks like you added the apache 2.0 LICENSE file to the styleguide repo in 2020. the existing README said creative commons. could you clarify this?

[dseomn]

If I remember correctly, I added the LICENSE file because I wanted to copy the pylint config file to https://github.com/dseomn/pepper-music-player/blob/main/third_party/google-styleguide/pylintrc following Google's guidelines for third_party imports. I don't think I knew about that line in README.md at the time. But it's also been a while and I'm not sure how accurate those memories are.

[marbre]

The initial README added with commit 51ce2f4 committed on May 20, 2015 refers to CC-BY-3.0

styleguide/README.md

Line 9 in 51ce2f4

These style guides are licensed under the CC-By 3.0 License, which encourages you to share these documents. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more details.

whereas the Apache-2.0 license was added with commit f704c35 on Jan 3, 2020.

So I assume that files initially added before commit f704c35 from Jan 3, 2020 is licensed unter CC-BY-3.0 as it seems there was no explicit re-licensing or dual-licensing action. However, IANAL! A short statement / clarification from Google's lawyers would be appreciated.