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Project appears to be unlicensed #19

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saltedcoffii opened this issue Mar 18, 2021 · 2 comments
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Project appears to be unlicensed #19

saltedcoffii opened this issue Mar 18, 2021 · 2 comments

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@saltedcoffii
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This source code doesn't have a license, as far as I can tell. According to https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/, a project without a license is "all rights reserved" and prohibits users from compiling/distributing binaries of this software. Please add a license. There is a relatively exhaustive list at https://choosealicense.com/appendix. Also, by adding a license this (depending on the license) allows third parties such as unix-like distributions to package this software and distribute binaries. Thank you for your consideration!
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a laywer, this isn't legal advice.

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tianon commented Mar 18, 2021

I suppose a LICENSE file at the top level would probably make sense, but this was created specifically for Debian (as a so called "native package"), so the license information is in debian/copyright:

Files: *
Copyright: 2012 Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
2014 Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org>
License: GPL-3+

(GPL-3+)

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tianon commented Mar 18, 2021

Fixed in ebe0530, thanks!

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