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hannob / snallygaster

Tool to scan for secret files on HTTP servers
BSD Zero Clause License
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License change to 0BSD #77

Closed hannob closed 3 days ago

hannob commented 2 years ago

There is some controversy about the CC0 license and its patent clause, which means it's not OSI approved, not recommended by the FSF and recently Fedora decided to disallow CC0 code: https://lwn.net/Articles/902410/

In summary: While the choice of CC0 was intended to make the use of the code as easy as possible, in practice it does the opposite. I would therefore like to change the license to 0BSD, which I believe is a license in the same spirit, but widely accepted as a good FOSS license (It's just a standard disclaimer, no restrictions for reuse): https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD

I would therefore like to ask all contributors if they agree to this change. While some contributions may be too small to justify a copyright, I would prefer to get approval from everyone, as this is certainly the legally safest option.

Tagging everyone who made a pull request in the past that got merged. Please just post "I agree" on this issue if you agree to the license change.

@security-companion ✅ @timonegk ✅ @jopi2016 ✅ @sebix ✅ @lynt-smitka ✅ @mohdshakir ✅ @cfi-gb ✅ @gvarisco ✅ @roman-mueller ✅ @gabeguz ✅ @pieterlange @ppepos ✅ @undergroundwires ✅ @wireghoul ✅

timonegk commented 2 years ago

I agree

sebix commented 2 years ago

I agree

Thank you for your time and efforts!

gvarisco commented 2 years ago

I agree

roman-mueller commented 2 years ago

I agree

security-companion commented 2 years ago

I agree jopi2016 is also my account but currently I don‘t have access to it.

wireghoul commented 2 years ago

I agree

cfi-gb commented 2 years ago

I agree (While i just changed one single char which probably doesn't justify a copyright)

gabeguz commented 2 years ago

I agree

undergroundwires commented 2 years ago

I agree and give fully consent to any future license changes

hartwork commented 1 year ago

I would therefore like to change the license to 0BSD

I agree

hartwork commented 11 months ago

For a quick summary of where we stand with this:

I would therefore like to change the license [from CC0] to 0BSD

@jopi2016 @lynt-smitka @mohdshakir @pieterlange @ppepos what do you think about the proposed change in license?

sebix commented 11 months ago

@pieterlange's contribution is only the Dockerfile, in theory, that file could keep the old license. @ppepos made a very minor contribution, I doubt that this implies copyright on the code: https://github.com/hannob/snallygaster/commit/d8e755bf3566758bb63b27d27fd3c41243a78ae2 @mohdshakir's case is similar, only a typo: https://github.com/hannob/snallygaster/commit/a423d4063f37763f9288505c0baca69e216daa7c https://github.com/hannob/snallygaster/commit/4697b5bbfefb803d3bc8ede24b6224a542bde3a8

undergroundwires commented 11 months ago

I agree

jopi2016 commented 11 months ago

I agree

ppepos commented 10 months ago

I agree.

mohdshakir commented 10 months ago

I agree.

sebix commented 10 months ago

That only leaves @pieterlange, who was last active in 2021 on GitHub. Maybe writing an email works? Or otherwise keep the Dockerfile under CC0 and switch the rest to 0BSD?

sebix commented 10 months ago

Oh, I forgot @lynt-smitka , sorry. He made two commits:

He was last active on November 7th on GitHub.

lynt-smitka commented 10 months ago

Agree 👍