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jpmckinney / validictory

🎓 deprecated general purpose python data validator
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Correct licence is "Expat" #95

Closed htgoebel closed 8 years ago

htgoebel commented 8 years ago

MIT Licence is ambiguous. The correct name of the licence you are using is "Expat". https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat

Please correct this in setup.py. Thanks

jamesturk commented 8 years ago

This is the license the project uses.

https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

htgoebel commented 8 years ago

MIT used different licences for differnet software, soe "MIT licence" is not clear enough. The one you are using is the "Expat" one. Please read the comments here https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License and here https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat

paultag commented 8 years ago

FWIW I mostly think "MIT" is a silly name (mostly because MIT actually uses BSD-3 most of the time), and "Expat" is slightly more right (so much so, that it's my default name for it), and in the latest version of the machine readable OSI data I have both names in it.

I mostly don't try to get people to change because it's a lot of energy for something that in the end is literally semantics