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Raku / vim-raku

Vim runtime files for Raku support
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Add a LICENSE file (and refer to it in the README) #6

Closed zostay closed 3 years ago

zostay commented 4 years ago

Migration of https://github.com/vim-perl/vim-perl6/issues/18 by @Tyil

Description of issue

This project currently does not carry a LICENSE. In the spirit of free software I'd like it to adopt a free license clearly in the project root. If possible, refer to the license in the README.md as well.

Since this is something we should decide with all contributors, all of them have been tagged in this issue. Please respond to this issue with the license you are OK with to put on this codebase.

Tyil commented 4 years ago

On Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:08:30 -0800 Sterling Hanenkamp notifications@github.com wrote:

Migration of https://github.com/vim-perl/vim-perl6/issues/18 by @Tyil

Description of issue

This project currently does not carry a LICENSE. In the spirit of free software I'd like it to adopt a free license clearly in the project root. If possible, refer to the license in the README.md as well.

Since this is something we should decide with all contributors, all of them have been tagged in this issue. Please respond to this issue with the license you are OK with to put on this codebase.

I'm OK with any license that is approved by the FSF1, with a preference towards (A)GPLv3.

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Patrick Spek

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zostay commented 4 years ago

I am adding my votes in which are: MIT, (any)

This should be done. I'm going to use a very simple ranked choice voting system to tally votes. As there were up to 4 choices made, I give the first choice of anyone 4 votes, the second choice gets 3 votes, the third 2 votes, and the final just 1 vote. My tallys are as follows:

  1. (Any) 19 votes, 31%
  2. MIT 17 votes, 28%
  3. vim 10 votes, 16%
  4. GPL/GPL 3 8 votes, 13%
  5. ISC 4 votes, 7%
  6. AGPL 4 votes, 7%
  7. BSD 3 votes, 5%

I am reading "(any)" as meaning that any FSF or OSI approved license would be considered reasonable. Therefore, "(any)" and "MIT" make up a plurality, which indicates to me that no runoff is necessary as they hold a plurality together.

Therefore, I will go ahead and add the MIT license to plugin as well as add appropriate documentation elsewhere to that effect. The license need not be set in stone, so if someone disagrees with my logic or the way I counted votes, please comment and we can discuss it.