License should be Public Domain

m2n037 / awesome-mecheng

Awesome Mechanical Engineering Resources

GNU General Public License v3.0

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License should be Public Domain #33

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

As this documentation project mostly consist from URL-links to 3rd party resources you couldn't cover them by terms of GNU GPL.

Better switch project to The Unlicense or Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (last preferred)

https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/#disclaimer
- http://unlicense.org/
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Clockmaker commented 6 years ago

I'm bumping this, because CC0 is the right choice, period. GPL is ill-suited for a list of links and it's a real headache if employed (copyright, authors, takedown...)

Forks are growing, but at this stage its still fixable

pwab commented 6 years ago

Thanks for bringing this point up. Vote for

m2n037 commented 6 years ago

I am closing this as according to my understanding CC is the right choice for now.