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Mischback / django-project-skeleton

A skeleton aka. template for Django projects
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Project Licence #6

Open kevihiiin opened 4 years ago

kevihiiin commented 4 years ago

Hi @Mischback,

I want to use the code generated by your skeleton for another open source project. The project will be licensed under GPLv3, given that I could not find a licence on your repository I wanted to ask if this would be compatible and if you are planning to publish the project under a license.

Mischback commented 4 years ago

Hi @kevihiiin,

funnily I'm currently working on a massive new feature-set and have the topic licence on my todo list.

tl;dr: Next version of django-project-skeleton will include MIT License.

Just to clarify, why there currently is no licence included: The django-project-skeleton is, as the name suggests, a skeleton, that can and should be used to create and maintain Django-based web applications. Some files (e.g. manage.py or wsgi.py) are slightly modified versions of the files provided by Django itsself.

When I created django-project-skeleton I was not aware, that omitting a licence could possibly hamper its usage. My thought was, that the template should not provide a licence, because I didn't want to restrict the users to a given licence.

Once https://github.com/Mischback/django-project-skeleton/pull/5 is finished, it will include a licence file, that will get replaced/deleted during an initialisation step (most likely a make init).

I plan to update the repository to be available under MIT License. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that it should be compatible with GPLv3.

Please drop me another message, I you / your team requires the licence file to be available now, I will provide a hotfix commit to development / master.