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Biking utility
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No license specified #63

Open jwoolston opened 9 years ago

jwoolston commented 9 years ago

Currently there is no license specified in either the master or development roots, leaving the code unprotected. A license file should be added to the project root and, ideally, all files updated to include a header specifying the license as well.

chadmiller commented 9 years ago

We don't, afaik, have a policy on licensing. Anyone have a complaint with using AGPL?

The problem now is not that it's unprotected, but over-protected. What we make should be open-source. Everything is under full copyright protection until we poke holes in it by giving others permission to use it, with conditions at our option.

ToxicBakery commented 9 years ago

I asked him to open the ticket as I thought I had put it under Apache. Anyways, in the spirit of letting anyone have this code with the least amount of problems, the WTFPL is a good choice in my opinion which is effectively just saying it is public domain I believe.

http://www.wtfpl.net/

If we want something less.. vulgar.. then possibly the MIT license? It is compatible with the Apache licenses in the libraries we use.

akozlik commented 9 years ago

This is probably part of a larger discussion since we'll adapt whatever license we choose for all of our other Code for Orlando projects. Code for Miami uses a specific Code for America license, but I'm sure we can use something else if necessary.

https://github.com/chimecms/chime/blob/master/LICENCE.md