libp2p / specs

Technical specifications for the libp2p networking stack
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Create LICENSE (MIT) #633

Closed MarcoPolo closed 2 months ago

MarcoPolo commented 2 months ago

closes #632

marten-seemann commented 2 months ago

Can you just impose a license on contributions after the fact?

People have already made license-free contributions for close to a decade now. ianal, but I'd be very surprised if you could put all of their work under a license without first getting explicit consent from each and every contributor.

vyzo commented 2 months ago

Closing this, @marten-seemann is right, we can't do this without explicit permission from contributors.

MarcoPolo commented 2 months ago

You’re right. Let’s discuss on the issue