Open LouisStAmour opened 9 years ago
I guess not. The whole idea of using the license was to make sure if any one extend anything in this app, it has to be public so that whole community gets benefit from that.
Since this app is free for the community, if any developments are done it has to be public. Hence non-derivatives. Of course you can fork it.
What you cant do is:
Let me know if you need more clarification on licensing.
P.S. Thanks for advocating the app on hacker news in that thread. :)
I'm not an expert on licensing, but I share the concerns brought up by @LouisStAmour. 'Non-derivative' implies that no-one except the creator of the code, can edit, add or subtract to the code. It think it would be wise to follow CC's own recommendations about not using their license for code, but rather find a license that is made specifically for this purpose.
Interesting project by the way, I'm going to give it a try on my server soon!
Agreed. Will surely look into something for the same. Thanks.
The CC-ND is definitely a big problem for collaborative development from the community. Maybe look at GPL if your intent is to force any updates to be released back to the community?
I know this issue is a little old, but I found this to be very helpful when I look at licenses as I don't remember each and every one: http://choosealicense.com/
It looks like you're looking for the GPL License.
Hi, if you're using an ND license, doesn't that mean we can't publicly fork the project to propose our own patches, etc.? I'm asking because as far as I can tell, it's very uncommon for software code to be licensed under Creative Commons licenses to begin with.
According to the ND license:
Which means the project is essentially read-only until you choose to publish any patches or changes we make and submit in private, yes? That doesn't work well on Github then, nor does it help protect you against liabilities.
Quoting from the CC FAQ:
Found this project via HN, btw, a passing mention in the comments for a different bit of open source project management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397878