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dev-cafe / autocmake

CMake plugin composer.
http://autocmake.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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[Licensing] Make clear licensing of Python code and downloaded plugins #211

Closed robertodr closed 6 years ago

robertodr commented 6 years ago

As mentioned by @jsspencer in hande-qmc/hande#2, it is not clear by skimming through Autocmake-related files what their license is. I suggest to prepend the Python code and the Autocmake plugins with the BSD-3-Clause license header. In addition, it might also be a good idea to generate or download a brief README.md in the cmake directory that makes clear that the Autocmake project is used to generate parts of the CMake infrastructure. I propose the following as content:

The CMake infrastructure for this project is generated using [Autocmake] by Radovan Bast, Jonas Juselius and contributors.
The `update.py` Python script and the contents of the directories `autocmake` and `downloaded` are licensed under the terms of the [BSD-3-Clause license], unless otherwise stated.

[Autocmake]: http://autocmake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[BSD-3-Clause license]: https://tldrlegal.com/license/bsd-3-clause-license-(revised)
bast commented 6 years ago

Thanks. Very good suggestion. Working on this.