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donkuri / Kaishi

Kaishi 1.5k is a modern, modular Japanese Anki deck made for beginners who want to learn basic vocabulary.
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Add a license #33

Open jamesmaa opened 5 months ago

jamesmaa commented 5 months ago

What are your thoughts on adding a license for Kaishi to allow other people to contribute to this repository? I'm worried about bitrot and if you disappear the community would have to start over if Kaishi is by default copyrighted content

donkuri commented 4 months ago

Hi, sorry it took me a while to reply. I like the idea of having a license, but I am not fully sure how one would go about doing this due to the nature of the deck, especially the sentence audio.

Ryu945 commented 4 months ago

If there is no issues with public use, can't you set setup this repository so anyone can clone this repository? Is that a function of the license @jamesmaa was talking about?

donkuri commented 3 months ago

Afaik anyone can fork this repository, and multiple people have.

winghouchan commented 2 months ago

If there is no issues with public use, can't you set setup this repository so anyone can clone this repository? Is that a function of the license @jamesmaa was talking about?

Afaik anyone can fork this repository, and multiple people have.

The lack of a license typically means an exclusive copyright by default. This means no permissions are granted for use, reproduction, distribution, modification, etc.

However, because this is a public repository hosted on GitHub, the GitHub Terms of Service means a license is granted with permissions to "use, display, and perform [...] through the GitHub Service and to reproduce [...] solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking)".

As a result, some permissions such as using and reproducing the contents of the repository are granted to a certain extent but, technically, no permission has been granted to distribute or modify the contents.

Whether such permissions are granted is up to you (and co-authors). Without a license, situations arise such as you intending for these permissions to not be granted but users (incorrectly) assuming they are because this a public repo; or you intend for these permissions to be granted but users are left uncertain because there's no explicit license and copyright law means these permissions aren't granted by default. Having a license makes your intentions specific.

choosealicense.com may help you make a start in choosing a license.

I am not fully sure how one would go about doing this due to the nature of the deck, especially the sentence audio.

What's the specific concern?

Taking a guess, based on the readme:

OpenSource.SE is a good place to get help regarding choosing a license. Before asking, see their guide.

donkuri commented 2 months ago

This is very illuminating thank you, I will take a look.