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Add a LICENSE to repo #37

Closed mattsahn closed 1 year ago

mattsahn commented 1 year ago

Decide on adding a license to the repo. Choices are:

  1. no license - not truly open-source, just code is available publicly. Might discourage contributors from getting involved.
  2. GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) - open source but fairly restrictive for someone that wants to use to make money. Probably consistent with goals of Grassroots Grocery.
  3. MIT license - very permissive and very common/popular license for open source. However, no restriction on someone using to make money, not so consistent with GG goals as a non-profit, but attractive to widest range of developers/contributors.
  4. The Non-Profit Open Software License version 3.0 (NPOSL-3.0) - modified version of OSL-3.0 for non-profits that further limits any liability. Not a realistic concern for GG, but interesting option that is non-profit specific.

I'm leaning towards #2 or #4, and probably #2 to start with since it supports the team-development aspect of GG that we will be doing, while being truly open source, but effectively preventing being used for unrelated commercial purpose. I don't think that's much of a real concern, but we should start somewhere.

jasoncavanaugh commented 1 year ago

I don't know a lot about licenses, but based on these descriptions, it seems like #2 is a good choice.

mattsahn commented 1 year ago

Added GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0)