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Sambigeara / fuzzynote

Terminal-based, hyper-fast, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking tool
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Please add a license to this repo #73

Closed mbrukman closed 3 years ago

mbrukman commented 3 years ago

First, thank you for sharing this project with us!

Could you please add an explicit LICENSE file to the repo so that it's clear under what terms the content is provided, and under what terms user contributions are licensed?

Per GitHub docs on licensing:

[...] without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work. If you're creating an open source project, we strongly encourage you to include an open source license.

Thanks!

Sambigeara commented 3 years ago

Hi @mbrukman - thank you for taking the time to check it out!

Admittedly, I've held off choosing a license thus far because quite frankly, it's an area I know very little about and I wanted to make a thoughtful decision.

Perhaps this is an opportunity to gather some feedback - I was loosely considering GPL/AGPL, would either of these impact how you viewed/approached the project? Appreciate any thoughts or insight at all.

Cheers

kseistrup commented 3 years ago

I appreciate projects with a GPL license: I know I can “mix and match” any code I see in such a project in any of my own projects, with the condition that my code is release under the same or a similarly free license. That's fair. I usually choose GPL3 for my own projects.

Sambigeara commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the input. I'm erring strongly on the side of AGPL. If no strong counter-points appear, I'll pull the trigger in the next day or so.