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Documentation and sample for using VS Code custom data format
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web-data licensing question #23

Closed tomrav closed 3 years ago

tomrav commented 3 years ago

I see that there is a mix of content and licenses in various parts of this repository (depending on their originating source, which makes total sense to me).

I wanted to inquire specifically about the web-data package/directory, and the data folder within. These don't seem to have a specific license applied, I'm not sure if the license from the root of the project applies, and so I wonder how they are licensed according to you?

Appreciate your help figuring this out.

aeschli commented 3 years ago

I added a license file. I hope that's helpful.

tomrav commented 3 years ago

Thank you for replying, but I'm still not seeing any license in the web-data package folder (or any new commits in the last 5 days). Something got missed perhaps?

aeschli commented 3 years ago

Sorry, now it pushed (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-custom-data/blob/main/web-data/LICENSE.md) and will be published to npm soon.

tomrav commented 3 years ago

Thanks for posting the license.

I'd like to ask a clarification question.

We're interested in using the two files browsers.css-data.json and browsers.html-data.json, from the web-data/data folder.

How would you say those two files are licensed? I'm not super clear about the distinction between data and content in the license. So I'm not sure under which one it falls.

CC BY-SA 2.5 is a viral license (like GPLv3) so this is critical for us to understand before consuming.

Hope this isn't a bother. :)

aeschli commented 3 years ago

Sorry, I read up on this and removed the reference to CC BY-SA 2.5. It's now pure MIT.

This is based on my understanding of the discussion here https://github.com/mdn/data/issues/210#issuecomment-387572808 that we had with MDN.

I'll have this checked with our legal guys, before I'll publish the next version.

You want to have this checked as well, if you have doubts.

tomrav commented 3 years ago

Thanks for clearing this up, I'll be sure to run it past our legal too.

tomrav commented 3 years ago

Hi, just wondering if it was settled and can be published?