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The source code has no license #1

Closed gpoo closed 8 years ago

gpoo commented 8 years ago

The lack of license means All rights reserved and it may affect the adoption (for example, porting the ode to other languages or distributing the code).

BenjaminHCCarr commented 8 years ago

Seeing as the math and protocol are public and published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies an De Gruyter Open Access Journal

And all of that is licensed: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/popets.2015.2016.issue-2/popets-2016-0008/popets-2016-0008.xml

I would think some some FOSS license is appropriate, see: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses https://opensource.org/licenses

Mozilla Public License 2.0 is likely closest to the way you did the paper: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mpl-2.0/

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kwonalbert commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take a deeper look and add a license soon.

On Jul 21, 2016 17:48, "Ben" notifications@github.com wrote:

Seeing as the math and protocol are public and published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies an De Gruyter Open Access Journal

And all of that is licensed: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/popets.2015.2016.issue-2/popets-2016-0008/popets-2016-0008.xml

I would think some some FOSS license is appropriate, see: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses https://opensource.org/licenses

Mozilla Public License 2.0 is likely closest to the way you did the paper: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mpl-2.0/

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