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cowboysmall-tools / hugo-devresume-theme

A free resume/CV template made for software developers.
MIT License
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Contradiction between LICENSE.md and README.md #26

Open eliminmax opened 1 year ago

eliminmax commented 1 year ago

According to LICENSE.md, this theme is available under the MIT license, which has the following terms:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

README.md contains the following:

License

This template is 100% FREE as long as you keep the footer attribution link. You do not have the rights to resell, sublicense or redistribute (even for free) the template on its own or as a separate attachment from any of your work. If you’d like to use this template without the footer attribution link, you can buy the commercial license

You may change the "Ported for..." line by adding the following to the end of config.toml

   [params.footer]
       copyright = ""

There is a direct contradiction there, and it's probably a good idea to remove one or the other.

cowboysmall commented 1 year ago

On the one hand the LICENSE within the repository refers to the Hugo theme, but the section you reference in the README refers to the original template which I have no control over. In other words, there are two distinct parts to this project / repository.

So you may use the original DevResume template outside of this Hugo theme, and when doing so you must adhere to the author's license. But the LICENSE within this repository refers to your use of this Hugo theme - which effectively wraps the original template.

So I actually don't see a conflict. if you see this project as being made up of two distinct parts - a Hugo theme and a html template. You are free to use the Hugo theme according to the license, but in order to use the template you must comply with the original author's license.

Maybe I should review this though - I have not looked at this project in some time, and I am sure it is due an update, so I might also review this issue at the same time. I'll have to consult the Hugo docs to see if there are any issues to changing the LICENSE of the Hugo theme.

Thanks for the comments. I'd welcome your thoughts on my points above.