Licensing

[ndarville]

The gh-pages branch has both an MIT and Apache license in it.

I assume the idea is to make openly available data for everyone to use. The question that remains is what license we should use for

• [ ] The data
• [x] The website source code

[okpatil4u]

What do you suggest ?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:17 PM Niclas Darville notifications@github.com wrote:

The gh-pages branch has both an MIT and Apache license in it.

I assume the idea is to make openly available data for everyone to use. The question that remains is what license we should use for

• The data
• The website source code

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/reddit-india/indianelectionmeter.github.io/issues/44.

[ndarville]

The MIT License seems like the best bet for the source code:

• http://choosealicense.com/licenses/

GPL is also an option, if you want to demand that people disclose their source—and don’t sublicense the code.

Copyrighting data from publicly available information is hard, but I mainly encourage licenses so people don’t get scared of using the code out of fear that it’s legally tricky.

[satyarth]

:+1: for MIT

[itsprdp]

+1 for MIT

[ghost]

:+1: for GPL

[satyarth]

MIT seems favored, let's go with it for now. Changed in 3620eb1b5df5941595cb1d7c735d30179c8da068 .