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paritytech / substrate-playground

Start hacking your substrate runtime in a web based VSCode like IDE

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Licence? #407

Closed nuke-web3 closed 1 year ago

nuke-web3 commented 3 years ago

This is some sweet software! ... But what is the license?

https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-playground#license

Seems TBD right now?

nuke-web3 commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/blob/master/LICENSE

as theia is used, might need to be a compatible / the same ?

jeluard commented 3 years ago

Hey Dan! That's a good question! We haven't figured out a license yet.. Do you have some specific concerns/needs?

nuke-web3 commented 3 years ago

In the words of some wise folks (https://expressionengine.com/blog/the-truth-about-the-risks-of-unlicensed-software)

Software that doesn’t have an explicit license is under exclusive copyright. That means nobody else can use, copy, share, or change it, even if it’s sitting in a public repo on GitHub. The only rights granted to the public by putting code on GitHub are the rights to look at it and fork the repository to look at it in their own account. That grant comes from GitHub’s Terms of Service, and still doesn’t mean that anyone can actually do anything with the code.

I would like to use the code 😅

jeluard commented 3 years ago

Great point!

How exactly would you use the code? And which code specifically? That might help us come up with a relevant license.

nuke-web3 commented 3 years ago

Well I wouldn't want to speak for every user, IMHO the more permissive the better. What I specifically would like to do:

Run an instance of this on my own hardware
Make modifications to the code and run that myself
Share this instance with others (likely not a public one)
Have the ability to make PRs to this repo and know what those contributions mean from a legal perspective.

I could imagine that others might want to consider commercial instances as a service for payment if the public server you host (at present) doesn't fit their needs for some reason(like crafting proprietary code in this IDE)