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Licensing issues #277

Open FedericoCeratto opened 9 years ago

FedericoCeratto commented 9 years ago

As it happened before in #6, at the moment 30 themes do not have a license file. This would make it tricky to release a themes collection package (see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759179 )

I'd like to suggest few alternative solutions.

The simple one would be to create a global license file at the root directory and state in the README.rst file that any theme provided without a license automatically inherits the global one. Clarification: contributors will see the default license when creating PR and agree to it. This does not apply retroactively to existing themes!

Even better, contributors could be asked to always inherit the root license and this would greatly simplify the packager's life.

Third option, having a license check script that is run as a TravisCI job every time somebody commits to the repository and fails the build if a license file is missing.

almet commented 7 years ago

That seems something interesting to do! Anyone in the contributors would like to volunteer on making this happen?

silverhook commented 7 years ago

The simple one would be to create a global license file at the root directory and state in the README.rst file that any theme provided without a license automatically inherits the global one.

Copyright doesn’t work that way. Even if it did, it’d be an awful move community-wise. (source: am lawyer, specialise in IT and FOSS licensing)

Even better, contributors could be asked to always inherit the root license and this would greatly simplify the packager's life.

That would be an option, preferably combined with the CI option below. I.e. if no license file is found, the committer/merge proposer would be asked to add a license file, with the suggestion to simply use the default one, if they don’t have any specific reason otherwise (e.g. based on some other code).

Third option, having a license check script that is run as a TravisCI job every time somebody commits to the repository and fails the build if a license file is missing.

This is a good suggestion. I haven’t played with TravisCI yet, but am willing to take a stab when I find the time.

All this is still treating the whole copyright and licensing question very lightly, as themes probably include code that was borrowed elsewhere and those in turn have to be properly licensed and the licenses compatible etc.; but this would indeed be an amazing great step in the right direction!

adrn commented 7 years ago

@wilsonfreitas - think you could add a license for aboutwilson?

sio commented 5 years ago

License for simple-bootstrap

As of now it is not obvious that anyone has permission to use this theme on their website. Please consider choosing one of the open source licenses: https://choosealicense.com/

I suggest MIT license. Unless previous contributors specified the license on their works via other channels, changing a license requires agreement from each one of them. Therefore, I'm pinging all of previous contributors.

Do you agree to change the license for simple-bootstrap to MIT license?

Please reply in the comments. Thank you

nicoddemus commented 5 years ago

I agree to changing the license to MIT. 👍

silverhook commented 5 years ago

Consider also adopting best https://reuse.software best practices to mark the code.

FedericoCeratto commented 5 years ago

Copyright doesn’t work that way. Even if it did, it’d be an awful move community-wise. (source: am lawyer, specialise in IT and FOSS licensing)

I added a clarification around the term "automatically" to convey what I meant.

silverhook commented 5 years ago

The simple one would be to create a global license file at the root directory and state in the README.rst file that any theme provided without a license automatically inherits the global one. Clarification: contributors will see the default license when creating PR and agree to it. This does not apply retroactively to existing themes!

This does sound better. You could also put a git hook into this, or use the DCO.

smu commented 5 years ago

I agree!

adamatan commented 5 years ago

Agree

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wilsonfreitas commented 5 years ago

Agree!

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housne commented 5 years ago

License for simple-bootstrap

As of now it is not obvious that anyone has permission to use this theme on their website. Please consider choosing one of the open source licenses: https://choosealicense.com/

I suggest MIT license. Unless previous contributors specified the license on their works via other channels, changing a license requires agreement from each one of them. Therefore, I'm pinging all of previous contributors.

Do you agree to change the license for simple-bootstrap to MIT license?

  • [ ] @charlesreid1
  • [x] @adamatan
  • [ ] @cowlicks
  • [x] @smu
  • [ ] @espern
  • [x] @nicoddemus
  • [ ] @housne

Please reply in the comments. Thank you

agree