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leonbloy / pngj

PNGJ : pure Java library for high performance PNG encoding
http://hjg.com.ar/pngj/
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Please add a license #51

Open nicolas-raoul opened 2 years ago

nicolas-raoul commented 2 years ago

Would you mind adding a license? For instance MIT license or just write in the README "This library is public domain" or something like this. Without a license, it is not legal to use this library. Thanks! :-)

seeseemelk commented 2 years ago

The pom.xml, the readme, and maven central do note that the library is licenced under the Apache 2.0 license. However, a small LICENSE would still be a nice addition.

CrossVR commented 8 months ago

The license is already in the repo, it's just in the resources folder: https://github.com/leonbloy/pngj/blob/master/src/main/resources/LICENSE.txt

Lonzak commented 8 months ago

What he meant is the following:

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nicolas-raoul commented 8 months ago

Thanks CrossVR for pointing this out, I just had not found it. So, I can start using this library. :-)

Having the license file at the root is expected by both humans and algorithms (such as GitHub metadata extractor as Lonzak points out). A license is often understood to cover only the directory it is in (and recursively its sub-directories).

Discussion: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/567/where-should-i-place-my-open-source-license-file-in-my-project