No license

[MrPowerMac]

I noticed this project doesn't have a license associated with it. By the Free Software Foundation's definition, software without a license is not free. It looks like the intent is to have this be a free software project, based on the fact that you have been accepting code from a few contributors.

I suggest you add a suitable license to this repository, to clarify that the code is free software. Choosealicense.com is a good resource for selecting a suitable license.

I personally recommend the GNU GPL v3.

[Heholord]

Thank you very much for this hint. I thought about the same thing in the morining but was to scared to look into the licence topic. I read a brief introduction to the GNU GPL Licence and i trust your recommendation.

[HermannBjorgvin]

MIT License is less limiting regarding dependencies, I don't consent to my code being GPLv3 licensed. Suggest MIT license or at least different licenses per script author

[ghost]

Throwing my hat in. I agree this should be under the MIT license but won't that conflict with what the JS license is? I know an MIT license can be in a GPL software but not vice versa.

[HermannBjorgvin]

A lot of these scripts use other programs like hddtemp or apcaccess to access statistics. I don't want to have to reject a good pull request because a script is dependent on a propriatery program for a UPS or a GPU for example.

"To be more specific, the doctrine is that a GPL program A is tightly coupled to another program B if it does not make sense to use A outside of B or B without A. In that specific case B should be GPL-licensed too. In other words, coding willingly a GPL wrapper around/for a proprietary program (or vice versa) is considered "cheating" the free software license."

[ghost]

You have a point and you won't hear any disagreements from here. Side note: I can't think of a use case for a GPU on these. Perhaps a compute server?

[HermannBjorgvin]

homelab tensor flow rack maybe, maybe some ups requires a propriatery program to get statistics from it, maybe a user wants to get information from a propriatery database. I think the best license would be MIT and then have each script check if the user has the program it wants to query from installed, I don't think that would violate GPL since the code can run without the propriatery program installed.

[Heholord]

So should we license it to MIT?

[Heholord]

@HermannBjorgvin please close this issue if you agree to the current license

[HermannBjorgvin]

Yes I think this is good. Issue resolved from my viewpoint at least