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konstin / github-wikidata-bot

Updates Wikidata entries using metadata from github
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Github-wiki-bot
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License of this code? #168

Closed tbm closed 1 year ago

tbm commented 1 year ago

Thanks for writing this bot!

I don't see license information anywhere. Can you please add a license.

konstin commented 1 year ago

Didn't really think about it, MIT OR Apache-2.0 maybe? TBH i never really expected any reuse of that code

tbm commented 1 year ago

It's just good hygiene to add a license since the way copyright works by default all rights are reserved.

MIT / Apache-2.0 sounds fine. IT would be great if you could add it somewhere explicitly. Thanks

JacksonChen666 commented 1 year ago

TBH i never really expected any reuse of that code

It's not just about reuse, it's also about use by you.

(Usual legal disclaimer of "I'm not a lawyer")

Anyone can contribute the code. However, you do not hold the copyright to that code, because there is no license. So that means you do not have the right to use the code people contributed.

The way to fix the current situation is make everyone who contributed agree on the new license.

See https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/

Nudin commented 1 year ago

Since I contributed quite some of the current code: I would be more than fine with and FSF/OSI approved license. :)

konstin commented 1 year ago

BSD+Patent it is then