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robin7331 / malyan-m200-display-firmware

MIT License
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Add a license #1

Closed vijfhoek closed 6 years ago

vijfhoek commented 7 years ago

Currently, the project does not have a license. It'd be great if you could add one, so contributors can know where their work goes (and so it's not technically illegal to fork/modify the code).

In case you're not familiar with licenses, I recommend the MIT (really permissive license) or the Apache 2 license (which allows you to place warranty on the product and has some patent protection stuff).

Having the proper license also protects against angry people destroying their printers, quoting the MIT license:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

robin7331 commented 6 years ago

You are absolutely right! Just added the MIT license.