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code-for-chapel-hill / NC-COVID-Support

Community support site, supporting COVID-19 business opening hours, Food Banks, School Meals, Farms and Social Services.
https://nccovidsupport.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add open source license info on GitHub #52

Closed KM-Hanson closed 4 years ago

KM-Hanson commented 4 years ago

Have an idea for an additional feature? (a) Describe the feature

We need to decide on and communicate the license for our site.

I don't have experience with this. Some info below. @garrisonreid Any CfA protocols here?

https://opensource.org/faq#which-license

suddengenesis commented 4 years ago

I've often seen places use Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/

Common derivations are here: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-examples/

KM-Hanson commented 4 years ago

Sounds like we should aim for CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-SA.

Here is a summary from Foter.com:

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suddengenesis commented 4 years ago

I think you're right, @KM-Hanson. Either of those could work. Who can make the final call on this?

KM-Hanson commented 4 years ago

@suddengenesis I think CC BY-NC-SA is most appropriate.

Here is the link to the license language: (I have not yet read thoroughly! Not sure if we need to change any text) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode

I think we should add: (1) Copyright 2020 Code for Chapel Hill (scroll down on this site for an example)

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(2) an image of the license logo....

The license logo is available for download either as the components or as an svg file from this page: https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

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KM-Hanson commented 4 years ago

Opening #92 for adding the copyright and license logo.

readingdancer commented 4 years ago

Hi @KM-Hanson can we have a chat about this one on Monday so that I can put something up onto GitHub, let me know when you are free via Slack.

readingdancer commented 4 years ago

If you look on the Creative Commons website you will see that they advise against using their licenses for software.

I have added the following GPL v3 license to the project as I think it covers what we last discussed:

https://github.com/code-for-chapel-hill/NC-COVID-Support/blob/master/LICENSE