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No free software license #20

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nfitzen opened this issue Apr 4, 2021 · 2 comments
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No free software license #20

nfitzen opened this issue Apr 4, 2021 · 2 comments
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nfitzen commented Apr 4, 2021 •
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Currently this project can't be called Open Source or free software since it doesn't have a license that meets any of the 2 criteria (or even at all).

Just in case, if you want a recommendation, I'd recommend AGPL-3.0-or-later for the server and GPL-3.0-or-later for the client. If you want extensions to be able to remain proprietary, then LGPL-3.0-or-later is fine for the client, too. These would ensure that the project remains free software.

By the way, all contributors would need to agree to licensing their existing contributions under whatever license you choose. (This step doesn't need to be done in the future thanks to GitHub's ToS.)

(IANAL, this is not legal advice.)
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explained here:
spacebarchat/client#22

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everything is now licensed under GPL V3
except for fosscord-ui, it is licensed under MIT for e.g. bot dashboards

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