You have no license

[MarkTraceur]

In a cursory look through this repository, there is no license available. This means that contributors will be skittish, redistributors will be punishable under U.S. and other copyright law, and don't even get me started about redistributing modified copies.

Please say something about a license in your README, include the full text of the license you choose in a COPYING file, and (ideally) add copyright and license headers in each file in the project.

Thanks!

[waldyrious]

👍

[kenany]

Looks like BSD, but of course the full license text is required, especially since it is ambiguous as to whether it is BSD 2-clause or 3-clause at the moment.

[rprieto]

Thanks a good point, thanks. I was tempted to go BSD3 (code can be redistributed / downstream modifications allowed / no warranties or damage liabilities / name cannot be reused for derivatives or endorsements) but I don't have a deep knowledge of licenses, especially if it comes to mixing code & content. Does you have any recommendations?

[waldyrious]

I can't comment on the appropriateness of BSD2 vs. BSD3 (my personal choice would probably be BSD2), but just in case you're considering other (non-BSD) licensing choices, you might find this post which I came across the other day, potentially useful: I think offers a nice overview of the kind of projects where it makes sense to pick a permissive license as opposed to a copyleft license.

[zlatanvasovic]

Why not MIT? MIT is the most universan and the most readable license ever (I don't want you have all rights licenses).

[rprieto]

Fixed. Went with MIT which is very similar to BSD, but the permissions/restrictions definitely are easier to understand.

[zlatanvasovic]

Thanks.

2014-01-31 Romain Prieto notifications@github.com:

Fixed. Went with MIT http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT which is very
similar to BSD, but the permissions/restrictions definitely are easier to
understand.

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