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google / styleguide

Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
https://google.github.io/styleguide/
Apache License 2.0
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License clarification #637

Open mofojed opened 3 years ago

mofojed commented 3 years ago

The LICENSE file in the project says it's an Apache license, but in the README.md, it says:

The style guides in this project are licensed under the CC-By 3.0 License, which encourages you to share these documents. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more details.

This seems to conflict. What does the Apache license cover?

gpshead commented 3 years ago

My gut feeling is that we mean Apache for any code in this repo and that CC license for the documents. I'll ask for clarification internally.

marbre commented 1 year ago

Any update on this?

gpshead commented 1 year ago

@shicks & @dseomn looks like you added the apache 2.0 LICENSE file to the styleguide repo in 2020. the existing README said creative commons. could you clarify this?

dseomn commented 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, I added the LICENSE file because I wanted to copy the pylint config file to https://github.com/dseomn/pepper-music-player/blob/main/third_party/google-styleguide/pylintrc following Google's guidelines for third_party imports. I don't think I knew about that line in README.md at the time. But it's also been a while and I'm not sure how accurate those memories are.

marbre commented 10 months ago

The initial README added with commit https://github.com/google/styleguide/commit/51ce2f41175fdf95258fc82dad31eeb02daf8931 committed on May 20, 2015 refers to CC-BY-3.0 https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/51ce2f41175fdf95258fc82dad31eeb02daf8931/README.md?plain=1#L9 whereas the Apache-2.0 license was added with commit https://github.com/google/styleguide/commit/f704c352f4f0597d2bd8b85d089b093946ff75d7 on Jan 3, 2020.

So I assume that files initially added before commit https://github.com/google/styleguide/commit/f704c352f4f0597d2bd8b85d089b093946ff75d7 from Jan 3, 2020 is licensed unter CC-BY-3.0 as it seems there was no explicit re-licensing or dual-licensing action. However, IANAL! A short statement / clarification from Google's lawyers would be appreciated.