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Statically generated site for Redbrick
https://redbrick.dcu.ie
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Replace the MIT license with GPL. #249

Closed GoldenBadger closed 7 years ago

GoldenBadger commented 7 years ago

If approved, all code on the repo after that point will be licensed under the GPLv3.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

Im not a big fan of replacing the license i prefer bsd

edit: i had a senior moment i meant mit

CSmartt commented 7 years ago

Approved by admins, webmaster & chair, merging this soon unless someone has a good reason not to.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

I still haven't heard a reason, just nods of approval, I'm wondering were a move to copyleft is coming from as redbrick is normally unlicenced or mit

GoldenBadger commented 7 years ago

It seems we were not using the MIT license correctly anyway, as we do not include a copyright notice.

https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license

GoldenBadger commented 7 years ago

Note, we can change the copyright notice to something like Copyright (C) 2017 the official Redbrick website contributors.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

the definition of official is ambiguous

GoldenBadger commented 7 years ago

What do you recommend we change it to? It is the officially-supported website.

butlerx commented 7 years ago

reading of it seems you are saying official contributors rather then contributors to the official website

GoldenBadger commented 7 years ago

I will reword.

benmcmahon100 commented 7 years ago

The committee held a vote regarding the change from the MIT license to the GPL-3.0 during the meeting on Monday 23/10/2017. Of the members present (11/12), 10 voted in favor of the change and 1 abstained. As such, we will merge this change to the license of the Redbrick website. On top of this, we have established that the GPL is completely compatible with MIT so there will be no issues moving to this license.