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prosemeteor / prosemirror

Prosemirror integration for Meteor.js
MIT License
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License and Contribution Guide #6

Closed ejfrancis closed 8 years ago

ejfrancis commented 8 years ago

Before we get too far we should get a license file (LICENSE.txt) and contributing guide (CONTRIBUTING.md) into the repo. I've put together a draft for a contributing guide, let's discuss that and the proper license to choose.

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ejfrancis commented 8 years ago

I don't know much about OS licenses tbh. A few helpful links I've found

https://opensource.org/licenses http://choosealicense.com/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/a-short-guide-to-open-source-and-similar-licenses/

funkyeah commented 8 years ago

Prosemirror and Meteor are both MIT licensed which allows us to license Prosemeteor pretty much however we want. I think the two best options are probably MIT and/or GPL3.

GPL is best if you share the FSF's philosophical stance about free software. MIT is among the best best if there will never be any intention to directly commercialize the project and want as many people as possible to use it. If we'd like to keep commercialization as an option then I think a dual license model is the best. E.g. it's GPL3 by default but if you want to integrate it into a commercial closed-source application then you can purchase a more permissive license like MIT or Apache.

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I don't know much about OS licenses tbh. A few helpful links I've found

https://opensource.org/licenses http://choosealicense.com/

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/a-short-guide-to-open-source-and-similar-licenses/

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ejfrancis commented 8 years ago

I'm not worried about commercialization personally, but I may be biased because I plan on using this in a closed-source app. I like the idea of MIT, letting anyone do pretty much whatever they want with it. What do you think?

ejfrancis commented 8 years ago

@funkyeah for the MIT license, it requires the holder's name/holding company. should we just put our names as the holders?

funkyeah commented 8 years ago

Sure that works for me On May 22, 2016 8:04 PM, "Evan Francis" notifications@github.com wrote:

@funkyeah https://github.com/funkyeah for the MIT license, it requires the holder's name/holding company. should we just put our names as the holders?

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