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World's largest Contributor driven code dataset | Used in Quark Search Engine, @OpenGenus IQ, OpenGenus Visual Project
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Consider a less restrictive license #119

Open keeferrourke opened 7 years ago

keeferrourke commented 7 years ago

By licensing this repository under the GNU General Public License, your "library of knowledge" which contains code that is general purpose in nature, is legally restricted to only be used in projects which are GPLv3 compatible.

This is bad for accessibility reasons, and very likely defeats your intended purpose.

Please consider re-licensing under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPLv3) or a simpler license such as the ISC License which isn't bogged down by quite so much legalese.

AdiChat commented 7 years ago

Thanks for pointing it out. We will consider another license, as we move on, which is compatible with the sister projects of this work.

LesnyRumcajs commented 7 years ago

Given the number of contributors and range of topics, I'd suggest WTFPL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

keeferrourke commented 7 years ago

The WTFPL is a great license :joy: but it was started as satire and is rather unprofessional. Its legal holding has been challenged in the past, and I only reserve its usage for joke projects. The ISC License is functionally equivalent.

ioistired commented 7 years ago

@keeferrourke what's your opinion on MIT? How does it differ?

keeferrourke commented 7 years ago

MIT is mostly equivalent to ISC, however the ISC licence has more concise wording.

In nearly all use-cases, I prefer the ISC license over the MIT.

This discussion in a gist goes over most of the differences. https://gist.github.com/indexzero/10602128