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DanBloomberg / leptonica

Leptonica is an open source library containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications. The official github repository for Leptonica is: danbloomberg/leptonica. See leptonica.org for more documentation.
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Website states that Leptonica's license is CC BY 3.0 US, but it's actually the 2-clause BSD license? #638

Closed triallax closed 2 years ago

triallax commented 2 years ago

If you scroll to the bottom of http://leptonica.org/ (or any other page of the website), it is stated that:

Leptonica by Dan Bloomberg is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

However, both http://leptonica.org/about-the-license.html (ignoring the footer) and https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/blob/master/leptonica-license.txt state that Leptonica is under the 2-clause BSD license.

DanBloomberg commented 2 years ago

I can see how this is confusing.

I applied the Creative Commons copyright to all the web pages of leptonica.org. The source code is licensed under 2-clause BSD, which is specific for source code.

Does that help?

triallax commented 2 years ago

Yeah, that makes sense. Could the statement perhaps be modified to clarify that CC BY 3.0 US is the license of the website's contents?

DanBloomberg commented 2 years ago

Probably even better, I should just remove the CC attributions on the web site pages.

triallax commented 2 years ago

Does that mean the website would no longer be under that license?

Personally, I think just modifying the footers is sufficient. The footer could read something like "unless otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the CC BY 3.0 US." (I am not a lawyer though)

stweil commented 2 years ago

What about "This content is licensed by Dan Bloomberg under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License"?

Or "This documentation is licensed by Dan Bloomberg under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License"?

triallax commented 2 years ago

The first one looks good to me, I would just use "this page's content" instead of "this content" for clarity.

DanBloomberg commented 2 years ago

Yes, that's better. I'll go with "This documentation is ...". Thanks.

DanBloomberg commented 2 years ago

Done. Thanks for the suggestions.

triallax commented 2 years ago

@DanBloomberg just a heads-up, you seem to have forgotten to update http://leptonica.org.

DanBloomberg commented 2 years ago

try shift-reload

triallax commented 2 years ago

Haha, thank you, that worked, guess my browser cache was at fault.