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mgholam / fastCSV

Fast CSV reader writer in c#
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5255318/fastCSV
MIT License
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How is fastCSV licensed? #11

Closed joelverhagen closed 3 years ago

joelverhagen commented 3 years ago

I am interested in using fastCSV in an open source project due to it's excellent performance but I am unsure of the license terms.

From the project URL on the package page, I see that this GitHub repository may be licensed under Code Project Open License (CPOL), but I'm not sure since the CPOL information is not even on GitHub. Would it be possible for you to release it under a more common license like MIT or Apache-2.0?

This is all I know about CPOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Project_Open_License#Status_as_an_open-source_license

Also, do you think you could include the license in the next package version so that it appears on nuget.org? https://www.nuget.org/packages/mgholam.fastCSV/

There is a document on how to do that here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/msbuild-targets#packing-a-license-expression-or-a-license-file

joelverhagen commented 3 years ago

One convention many repos follow it to put the license in the root of the repo as "LICENSE.txt" and update the GitHub repository metadata to state the license.

mgholam commented 3 years ago

I've added a MIT license.

mgholam commented 3 years ago

Also check out my other repo which goes well with fastCSV : https://github.com/mgholam/noDB

joelverhagen commented 3 years ago

Wonderful! Thanks!