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automeris-io / WebPlotDigitizer

Computer vision assisted tool to extract numerical data from plot images.
https://automeris.io
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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License Issue #214

Closed jasonnicholson closed 4 years ago

jasonnicholson commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the great tool!

  1. The User Manual reference's the GPLv3 in the license section. On GitHub, the license is AGPLv3. The License in the Desktop App (shown below) is not the AGPLv3 or GPLv3. I think this creates some ambiguity. Please, consider updating this.

file called "LICENSE" in the desktop release

Copyright (c) 2013-2018 GitHub Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

  1. GitHub and the User Manual don't specifically mention commercial use. I want to use your tool for processing graphs/charts at my place of employment. However, my place of employment is resistant to let us use software under the AGPLv3. I can argue that I don't intend to modify or transmit over the network. Hopefully, that will be accepted and get me past the AGPLv3. I request that you add a comment about personal, academic, and commercial use specifically. Adding this comment would greatly help me in speaking with my IT department.
ankitrohatgi commented 4 years ago

Hello, the manual is incorrect (thanks for pointing this out). The software is licensed as AGPL v3 primarily to prevent distribution by someone else in a modified form without making the code changes public. You should be able to use this without any license issues internally in your company (or for personal or academic use). If this comment is not sufficient for your IT then perhaps they can read the license text in detail?

jasonnicholson commented 4 years ago

This the best that can be done. Thank you for your response.