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barbagroup / JITcode-MechE

Online learning modules to learn computing in a problem-based context within Mechanical Engineering
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Code should be provided under MIT license #4

Closed ahmadia closed 10 years ago

ahmadia commented 10 years ago

The Creative Commons licenses do not cover software. The recommended licensing approach is to provide all code under MIT and remaining content under CC BY. We need to note any exceptions (when we're reusing other people's material, for example), somewhere in a LICENSE file.

gforsyth commented 10 years ago

I concur. The README generator script is based on a similar item from https://bitbucket.org/hrojas/learn-pandas. Prof. Barba, if you give the go-ahead I'll throw up the license file.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Aron Ahmadia notifications@github.comwrote:

The Creative Commons licenses do not cover software. The recommended licensing approach is to provide all code under MIT and remaining content under CC BY. We need to note any exceptions (when we're reusing other people's material, for example), somewhere in a LICENSE file.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/barbagroup/JITcode-MechE/issues/4 .

labarba commented 10 years ago

But there is already a LICENSE file on the root of the repository that indicates MIT. Aron, are you talking about the text line on top of the notebooks? It was meant to refer to the text and images, but if you think it's unclear with a separate LICENSE file then we can edit the top line. Or the LICENSE file needs to be modified to also mention CC-BY for text+images? Or both?

gforsyth commented 10 years ago

I'm closing this -- there's a MIT LICENSE file in the root of the directory

ahmadia commented 10 years ago

Yeah, I was referring to the line on the top of the notebooks. You can see the statement I used in my pull request for clearer text that indicates that the code is available under the MIT license.