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jboxberger / synology-gitlab-ce

This is a docker based GitLab CE package for Synology NAS server using the original gitlab/gitlab-ce image from hub.docker.com. The goal of this project is to lower the entry barrier for new GitLab users and give experienced users a little comfort in maintaining their GitLab installation.
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Please define a license for this #6

Open sglaser opened 2 years ago

sglaser commented 2 years ago

Clearly the underlying gitlab-ce is covered by their license.

Please write something to describe the license you apply to your changes / adaptations for Synology use. Doing so will provide users with clarity and peace of mind.

I suspect you are pretty flexible about license terms and this is not a big limitation. I suspect the gitlab or synology folk would happy to help you figure out what makes sense if that kind of help is needed.

jboxberger commented 2 years ago

Hi,

thank you for your issue. Sorry i am not into licenses. Maybe you have a hint for me with which one to go. I have something like "Free for all, no resell, no military use" in mind.

Kind Regard

sglaser commented 2 years ago

I’m not much up on this either.

Most of gitlab-ce is covered by the MIT license (more precisely what is now called MIT Expat). That doesn’t have your no-resell, no military features. It has the nice property of being compatible.

I didn’t see anything with a no military feature. That would get into stick issues of what “military” means. For example, is the US CIA military? Not officially since it’s not part of the Defense Department, bot many folk would consider at least part of its mission to be military. Academic research sponsored by the defense department would be the opposite extreme. This is likely ok by many folk’s concept of "no military" but not officially non-military.

GPL likely covers what you want. It puts some viral restrictions (i.e., if I include your stuff in mu stuff, I have to use GPLv3 as well). This may limit forks of your work becoming useful should you abandon support.

I found https://choosealicense.com to be useful. The various wikipedia pages are also helpful but a bit more involved in details with lots of “fringe” licenses covered.

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