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Add an open source license #33

Open steffen opened 2 years ago

steffen commented 2 years ago

I have been looking into this for the last couple of weeks and I think we should go with the MIT License in order to keep it simple for the start and to unblock allowing code contributions.

Here is a great overview of the MIT License with a comparison to a few others: https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-licenses-101-mit-license/

According to the article it is the most popular open source license as of the writing (a year ago). It is a simple, short, permissive, explicit and easy to understand license. It is hard to foresee if we need or want to go with a more restrictive license later and to my understanding the MIT License would allow that.

A few resources I used to look up open source software licenses: