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remulasce / metroapp

Realtime arrival notification utility for LA Metro
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Add a license #159

Open remulasce opened 9 years ago

remulasce commented 9 years ago

By default, I actually maintain full copyright in absence of a license. So nobody can actually use the code without my permission.

So it's not actually open-source. I want to keep open the possibility of monetization, but I like open source, so I'm going to have to think about this.

nighelles commented 9 years ago

I'm fairly sure that posting the code on github constitutes some sort of implicit permission for use, unless you specifically say otherwise.

remulasce commented 9 years ago

The existing 'license.md' file I added does note that Github allows everyone some rights. But those rights are basically just to look at the code and fork it. You can't actually do anything with your fork.

nighelles commented 9 years ago

I wonder if you could write a meta license that basically says:

The following code is released under GPL/Apache/MIT/whatever with the understanding that I may at a later time pull the rug out from under you and decide to monatize this. The following URL: www.placeholder.com will be updated once per day to reflect the current licensing of the code.