RobotLocomotion / drake-external-examples

Examples of how to use Drake in your own project.
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Switch license to MIT-0 #246

Closed jwnimmer-tri closed 1 year ago

jwnimmer-tri commented 2 years ago

Closes #240.

Relates to https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/issues/1805 a bit.


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jwnimmer-tri commented 2 years ago

Hello @yf225, @cjds, and @adeeb10abbas. Thank you for your past contributions to the drake-external-examples project (#106, #181, and #244)!

To make it easier for Drake's users to take advantage of these examples, I'd like to re-license this repository from the BSD-3-Clause license to the MIT-0 license. With the old license, users are required to preserve the examples' copyright notices in their own project, leading to a extra boilerplate and hassle. With the new license, users would not be required to copy over those comments when bootstrapping their build system.

As past contributors to this repository, I'm seeking your approval of this license change. Kindly please reply to this pull request, stating whether or not you approve of this change. Your approval would effectively re-license your contribution under the new terms.

adeeb10abbas commented 2 years ago

@jwnimmer-tri sounds good to me! Happy to help/contribute :)

yf225 commented 2 years ago

Sounds good to me too, thanks!

jwnimmer-tri commented 1 year ago

I went back through the @cjds contribution and it was only https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake-external-examples/commit/95a34660d85c2a3c2788c4866da63badfb238eff.

I'll check whether or not any copyright there has bled into other files, and for now plan to switch everything except that contribution to MIT-0.

Update: Those two files were not copied anywhere else. So I'll just leave them alone for the moment. Once we age out Focal support, they will disappear.

jwnimmer-tri commented 1 year ago

Yay, and GitHub already noticed!

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cjds commented 1 year ago

@sherm1 sorry for the late reply. Haven't been monitoring GitHub off late. Happy to contribute as well if applicable

sherm1 commented 1 year ago

Thanks, Carl -- much appreciated. cc @jwnimmer-tri