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damienvanrobaeys / Run-in-Sandbox

Run PS1, VBS, CMD, EXE, MSI, Intunewin, MSIX, or extract ISO, ZIP in Windows Sandbox very quickly just from a right-click
https://www.systanddeploy.com/2023/06/runinsandbox-quick-way-to-runextract.html
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Add a license #37

Open Bad3r opened 1 year ago

Bad3r commented 1 year ago

Hi there 👋 Thanks for the awesome project! could you please add a license to the repo such as MIT or AGPL? https://choosealicense.com/

Joly0 commented 12 months ago

Hm, i am not 100% sure it is as easy now to simply add a license, as there have been other contributors (like myself) which might need to approve the change of a license. But other than that i think a license might be useful

Bad3r commented 12 months ago

@joly0, the repo has no license. That means the creator owns all rights. You contributing to it without any given rights by the creator does not give you permission to copy or modify the code.

Based on my very limited legal understanding, the creator @damienvanrobaeys is the sole right holder and has complete control over the code unless there are dependencies with conflicting licenses.

Joly0 commented 12 months ago

Hm, i am not sure about that one, as i have contributed code to this project which i have copyright on, i have rights on if and which license this project should use if its decided to add one.

If the project actually had a license and @damienvanrobaeys decided to change the license to another one, all contributors would have to agree on that aswell.

Bad3r commented 12 months ago

Hm, i am not sure about that one, as i have contributed code to this project which i have copyright on, i have rights on if and which license this project should use if its decided to add one.

If the project actually had a license and @damienvanrobaeys decided to change the license to another one, all contributors would have to agree on that aswell.

Let's say the owner said anyone is welcome to contribute but they hold the copy wright completely to the code. In that case you won't have claim to your contribution if you contribute as the license directly sates so. Having no license is the same thing.

It's the same as if someone owns a house and you decided to build a deck on it and the owner welcomed it. If the owner decides to sell the house you have no ownership unless there was an agreement that stated so.

Changing license also depends on what license was first available.

Joly0 commented 12 months ago

https://opensource.guide/legal/

Quote: "If you don’t apply an open source license, everybody who contributes to your project also becomes an exclusive copyright holder of their work."

I have a copyright on my work in this project, not the owner.

I have asked several people who should have knowledge about licensing and copyright for open source software and they all agree, i have the copyright on my work and i have the right to decide if and which license this project should have.

Joly0 commented 11 months ago

@damienvanrobaeys What do you think about this? A license might be really useful and important tbh, but i think we need @galeksandrp on this aswell

damienvanrobaeys commented 1 month ago

Hi, sorry for the delay, i was a but busy with work. I will update the full project I will also add a licence.

galeksandrp commented 1 month ago

+1 for adding a license.

Joly0 commented 1 month ago

Btw, because the licence thing was not 100% clear yet, i have asked gpt4o about the situation. I did ask gpt3 back when this topic came up first, but gpt3 doesnt have enough knowledge to answer this question, but it seems like gpt4o improved on that end. (And yes, i know gpt4o is not a lawyer, but i think we can all agree, that its quite good with its answers and should be correct with its assumptions regarding this topic)

So here are some of the answers gpt4o gave me:

You own the copyright to the code you wrote and contributed. Copyright ownership arises automatically upon creation, and you, as the author of the new code, hold the rights to your contributions.

The original author can add a license to the repository. If they add a license that covers past contributions as well, the terms of that license would apply to all code in the repository, including your contributions. However, the author cannot retroactively impose a license on your contributions without your consent. Ideally, the original author should obtain explicit permission from all contributors before applying a new license to the entire codebase.

If the repository owner unilaterally adds a license, it is courteous and often necessary to notify and seek agreement from all contributors. If you disagree with the license chosen, you can request that your contributions be removed or negotiate terms.

But so far, the main contributors agreed on adding a license.