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Byzantian / TempleOS-V

Temple OS port for the emerging open hardware RISC-V platform.
The Unlicense
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Licensing #3

Closed minexew closed 5 years ago

minexew commented 5 years ago

Before any code is written, we need to agree on a license.

In my view, we should honor the legacy of TempleOS by sticking to its 100% public domain model.

BSD/MIT/WTFPL/... would probably be fine as well. But the GPL is pretty restrictive and perhaps needlessly opinionated about what people should or should not be allowed to do. If somebody wants to build a fucking TempleV toaster, they shouldn't be forced to give you JTAG access

Byzantian commented 5 years ago

I completely agree. I'm not a GPL warrior of any sort. Just set it to GPL3 as a sort of joke or failsafe at first. After all, nobody is ever going to fork this for a commercial closed source project. As far as I know the only difference between public domain and MIT is having to credit the original authors, right? Which one do you prefer?

minexew commented 5 years ago

I vote for public domain.

Byzantian commented 5 years ago

So, public domain it is. Should I just delete the license file or what?