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Intechnity-com / OdooJsonRpcClient

Odoo Client Json Rpc
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Add licence to repository #43

Closed Bert-Proesmans closed 2 years ago

Bert-Proesmans commented 2 years ago

Hi, in order to use this library in my organisation there needs to be a definition of what is/is not allowed with the code. A licence will help protect your rights as owner, and me/my organisation as consumer.

Are you willing to add a licence to this repository?

patricoos commented 2 years ago

Hi, Can you send me any license to follow the example?

Bert-Proesmans commented 2 years ago

Hi, the procedure to introduce a licence is a few steps;

  1. Pick a licence
  2. Get all contributors to agree
  3. Write out the chosen licence text in a LICENCE file at the root of the repository (this is a conventional approach)
  4. (If necessary) Add licence header to the files in your repository

Picking a licence (1) is something you'll have to do yourself, this is actually a pretty important decision since it defines the freedoms, and limitations, and conditions, others have with your copyrighted material (aka your code).
For a quick overview check https://choosealicense.com/, but be aware there are many licences and the differences are not always easy to grasp.
You could follow the licence used by Odoo LGPL (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/), see https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/fcc74186330c8df37cfac08455bd7bba44d4656b/LICENSE Or keep it short and straightforward, use MIT (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)

As for agreement between contributors (2) I explicitly agree to have my contributions be licenced under any licence you pick. It would help me if that licence allowed "commercial use" and "modification"!

MZabal commented 2 years ago

Hi, The library looks great! we are also interested in using it in my org. I just made a pull request adding a MIT license file following @Bert-Proesmans example.