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c-w / ghp-import

Easily import docs to your gh-pages branch.
https://pypi.org/project/ghp-import/
Apache License 2.0
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License the repository under an actual open source license #71

Closed dhimmel closed 4 years ago

dhimmel commented 6 years ago

Currently, this repository is licensed under:

https://github.com/davisp/ghp-import/blob/0e2045e750569f67cbcd96e7e53dbfc865df747e/setup.py#L20

which reads:

https://github.com/davisp/ghp-import/blob/0e2045e750569f67cbcd96e7e53dbfc865df747e/LICENSE#L1-L11

Since ghp-import has a large user base that depends on it, I think it'd make sense to change the license to an actual open source license. Currently, for example, the lack of an open source license makes me less willing to contribute larger changes, since I don't want to spend time on something where there could be legal issues preventing future reuse.

I'd be happy to create a PR with a chosen license. I'd recommend MIT or BSD 3-Clause.

saper commented 6 years ago

I think this license may get OSI certification though!

c-w commented 4 years ago

Unless @davisp objects, I plan to soon make a final release to v0.6.0 under the current license and then re-release the project under Apache 2.0 as v1.0.0.

c-w commented 4 years ago

As of v1.0.0 the project is now licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.