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Is walkinafog open source? #2

Closed intgr closed 12 years ago

intgr commented 12 years ago

Putting up source code on GitHub seems like an intent to open source the project. However, the project is not currently accompanied by an open source license. Did I commit a felony when I cloned this project? Please add a license file :)

idflood commented 12 years ago

Ohh yeah, It's definitely open source. I'm hesitating between MIT license and creative common, I will have to document myself about this. The special case is about the music, I don't know if it can be embedded inside an opensource project or not, and how to specify the license of it.

I will ask the producer about it, but if you have a suggestion don't hesitate.

intgr commented 12 years ago

The special case is about the music, I don't know if it can be embedded inside an opensource project or not

Evaldas Azbukauskas (SoulSonic) has previously licensed his music under CC licenses (e.g. there's a license grant at http://archive.org/details/Complex_798 and a few more of his earlier releases), so I figure he might be open to granting a license for this track, too.

The only problem with CC is that the "Noncommercial" and "No Derivative Works" clauses conflict with most peoples' understanding of open source -- better to avoid them if possible. But even that's better than no license. :)

and how to specify the license of it.

Most projects simply have a LICENSE.txt or COPYING.txt in the root directory, that states which files/directories are covered by which license, followed by full copies of the license texts.

Example: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/LICENSE

idflood commented 12 years ago

I just uploaded a license file and decided to go for the MIT.