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alan-turing-institute / DetectorChecker

Project to develop software to assess developing detector screen damage (Web App based on the original DetectorChecker package)
https://detectorchecker.azurewebsites.net
MIT License
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Package License #48

Closed OscartGiles closed 5 years ago

OscartGiles commented 5 years ago

One thing that remains to be decided is what license to use for releasing the package.

Hadley Wickham (Rstudio) recommends the MIT, GPL-2 or GPL-3 license. This is a useful resource about different license types (https://choosealicense.com/licenses/)

We could discuss at our meeting on Wednesday 20th.

@martintoreilly - Do you have a preference here?

tomaslaz commented 5 years ago

Just for reference: ggplot, igraph -> GPL-2 dplyr -> MIT raster -> GPL-3

To my understanding MIT is the most permissive and shortest licence; the difference between GPL-2 and GPL-3 is minimal.

The main difference between MIT and GPL-2/3 is that if a developer derivative work from a GPL-2/3 licensed source code, the new work must be under the same GPL-2/3 licence. The GPL-2/3 licences have a notion of If I made my code open source so should you.

I personally would prefer the MIT licence and ask people to reference our work.

OscartGiles commented 5 years ago

I am setting the package up with the MIT License. We also need to add a file called LICENSE which has the following

YEAR: 2019 COPYRIGHT HOLDER:

How/who should be the copywriter holder here?

OscartGiles commented 5 years ago

Hi @martintoreilly, at our last DetectorChecker meeting we discussed that the MIT License might be a good choice for the R package.

Do you have any thoughts/preference here?

OscartGiles commented 5 years ago

Martin has confirmed that MIT is the preference for REG. I will add License info to package.