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gsteph / groove-dl

A Grooveshark song downloader in Python
http://gsteph.github.io/groove-dl/
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No source code license #15

Open csolisr opened 11 years ago

csolisr commented 11 years ago

Currently, Groove-DL has no license, which means it's fully copyrighted. Have you considered adding a license (like the GPL or the BSD-type)?

gsteph commented 11 years ago

I have. But I never bothered to lookup how to GPL it. If you want to do something with the source code just ask me. On Feb 8, 2013 7:17 AM, "Carlos Solís" notifications@github.com wrote:

Currently, Groove-DL has no license, which means it's fully copyrighted. Have you considered adding a license (like the GPL or the BSD-type)?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jacktheripper51/groove-dl/issues/15.

csolisr commented 11 years ago

To use the GPL, you can read this manual: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

yasoob commented 11 years ago

I would like to merge this into youtube-dl. Can you release the source code into Public Domain ? That is because youtube-dl is also released to Public Domain. the link for the project is http://www.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

gsteph commented 11 years ago

Public Domain is not exactly suitable for me. Why does it have to be like youtube-dl?

yasoob commented 11 years ago

There is not any need for changing the license. I was just asking because if you release it into the public domain we can integrate it into youtube-dl and then your code can be helpful to a whole lot of other people as well.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:30 AM, George Stephanos notifications@github.comwrote:

Public Domain is not exactly suitable for me. Why does it have to be like youtube-dl?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jacktheripper51/groove-dl/issues/15#issuecomment-26639303 .

gsteph commented 11 years ago

Yes I understand. I meant public domain itself sounds a bit scary. Would the (L)GPL work for you?

yasoob commented 11 years ago

Hmm no. Sorry for that. We can only merge code which is released to the public domain.

gsteph commented 11 years ago

Isn't your software going to be open source? If not, I'm afraid I can't license you.

yasoob commented 11 years ago

Our project is open source and has always been. Public Domain is a truly Open Source license. Read this extract taken from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived.

gsteph commented 11 years ago

I'm aware. I'd just have an issue with somebody "exploiting" my code in any way. I don't want it that open. How come you can't combine the code if it's under the GPL?

yasoob commented 11 years ago

We want a consistent license. We can not license one part and keep the other unlicensed. However even if I agree the other contributors won't agree.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:30 PM, George Stephanos notifications@github.comwrote:

I'm aware. I'd just have an issue with somebody "exploiting" my code in any way. I don't want it that open. How come you can't combine the code if it's under the GPL?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jacktheripper51/groove-dl/issues/15#issuecomment-26673017 .

gsteph commented 11 years ago

I really don't quite get the issue. You'd just mention that certain files of yours contain code from the groove-dl project and supply the LICENSE file. Isn't that all?

yasoob commented 11 years ago

We don't want to do that. We want to keep the source code under a single license.