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lab11 / signpost

Exploring what happens when you put computers on sign posts.
Apache License 2.0
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Closed Susurrus closed 7 years ago

Susurrus commented 7 years ago

While this code is all public, I didn't see a license file or anything specified in the README. It'd be good to clarify this.

adkinsjd commented 7 years ago

It's free, and you can use it if you want to. I suppose you could take that as the "Unlicense".

Susurrus commented 7 years ago

Cool, that's a great license choice! Could this be made explicit in the README or in a LICENSE file so that it's clear for others as well?

Susurrus commented 7 years ago

I believe this repo also contains hardware, which doesn't quite work with some of the conventional FOSS software licenses. I'd recommend explicitly selecting a specific OSHW license for your hardware designs and then specifying that only the code is under Apache2/MIT.

ppannuto commented 7 years ago

My reading / understanding was the MIT (and/or BSD) licenses covered hardware well. The copyleft fellows had to change but not the permissive ones. A quick google seemed to back this understanding, but it seems to be murkier territory. If you have pointers to any good writeups on the issues with using MIT license for OSHW / recommended licenses we'd be happy to consider them.

Susurrus commented 7 years ago

This seems like a good resource. But basically, MIT shouldn't be an issue, you're correct. You might want to say that non-code in this repo is licensed under MIT and all code is dual MIT/Apache2. Then I think you'd be fully covered.