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Choice of License #75

Open xiw315 opened 5 years ago

xiw315 commented 5 years ago

This issue is for the discussion of whether our current license is appropriate and what other license we might want to consider for our package

andrealee011 commented 5 years ago

I think we can keep our license as is (i.e. MIT license). Because we want to be able to openly distribute our package without restriction, an MIT license would be appropriate.

We could also consider a GNU General Public License. This is similar to a MIT license, except those who use our package must also make their source code openly available. This will ensure no one is profiting off our package.

xiw315 commented 5 years ago

I agree that we keep using MIT license. Other the reason Andrea already stated, MIT license is probably one of the most widely used licenses so potential contributors and users should all be pretty familiar with its terms. Thus, they do not need to spend much time deciding whether they will be okay with our license.

eyrakas commented 5 years ago

I agree that we stick to MIT license as it covers permissibility needed for the free license distribution protocol.

agdal1125 commented 5 years ago

I agree with keeping the MIT license as well.