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SnowEx / snowexsql

A project to access the SnowEx database holding data from the NASA SnowEx campaign
https://snowexsql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/readme.html
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Change license #95

Closed jomey closed 1 month ago

jomey commented 1 month ago

Stumbled on this when looking at the effort of @micah-prime to create a conda release (#93)

I propose to change the library license to GNU v3 (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/)

Reason: The current copyright of Copyright "2021 (c) Boise State University SnowEx Hackweek" seems appropriate for the version(s) released back then, but I would like to shift to a more community and open effort.

Any objections or thoughts? @micahjohnson150 @aaarendt

hpmarshall commented 1 month ago

Makes a lot of sense to me.

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Stumbled on this when looking at the effort of @micah-prime https://github.com/micah-prime to create a conda release (#93 https://github.com/SnowEx/snowexsql/issues/93)

I propose to change the library license to GNU v3 ( https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/)

Reason: The current copyright of Copyright "2021 (c) Boise State University SnowEx Hackweek" seems appropriate for the version(s) released back then, but I would like to shift to a more community and open effort.

Any objections or thoughts? @micahjohnson150 https://github.com/micahjohnson150 @aaarendt https://github.com/aaarendt

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micah-prime commented 1 month ago

Good call - I think changing the license makes a lot of sense. I am a fan of the MIT license https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ generally because I think the "copy left" GNU licenses are likely to be ignored by most folks anyway.

jomey commented 1 month ago

I am a fan of the MIT license https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ generally because I think the "copy left" GNU licenses are likely to be ignored by most folks anyway.

Agreed that it is a simpler license and most people won't read it anyways. Reason I am advocating for GNU is that we could at least try to have them keep the same license and state the changes. As you said though, this is probably a pipe dream.

You OK with giving GNU a shot?

micah-prime commented 1 month ago

I am a fan of the MIT license https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ generally because I think the "copy left" GNU licenses are likely to be ignored by most folks anyway.

Agreed that it is a simpler license and most people won't read it anyways. Reason I am advocating for GNU is that we could at least try to have them keep the same license and state the changes. As you said though, this is probably a pipe dream.

You OK with giving GNU a shot?

Sure!

aaarendt commented 1 month ago

This works for me considering no others have contributed yet. Seems the right time to make a change.