Explicit licensing to MIT

[senko]

While it has always been implicit that python-video-converter is open source and available under a permissive license, it was recently noted that we don’t say it explicitly anywhere, ie. the project doesn’t have an explicit license. As such, it can be argued it’s under all-rights-reserved copyright.

To fix this, I am proposing to (re)license to MIT, a popular open source license. The full text of the license would go into LICENSE.txt file and would read as this:

Copyright (C) 2011.-2017. Python Video Converter contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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.

So I’m asking all contributors to the package - are you okay with this change? If so, please indicate in the comments / reactions to this GitHub issue.

Pinging @tahajahangir @mutschler @Kami @omidraha @KoleS46 @ouhouhsami @cepreu2github @legrisdev @marvin

[Kami]

I'm OK with it :+1:

[cepreu2github]

Agree.

[KoleS46]

Agree.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Senko Rašić notifications@github.com wrote:

While it has always been implicit that python-video-converter is open source and available under a permissive license, it was recently noted that we don’t say it explicitly anywhere, ie. the project doesn’t have an explicit license. As such, it can be argued it’s under all-rights-reserved copyright.

To fix this, I am proposing to (re)license to MIT, a popular open source license. The full text of the license would go into LICENSE.txt file and would read as this:

Copyright (C) 2011.-2017. Python Video Converter contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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.

So I’m asking all contributors to the package - are you okay with this change? If so, please indicate in the comments / reactions to this GitHub issue.

Pinging @tahajahangir https://github.com/tahajahangir @mutschler https://github.com/mutschler @Kami https://github.com/Kami @omidraha https://github.com/omidraha @KoleS46 https://github.com/KoleS46 @ouhouhsami https://github.com/ouhouhsami @cepreu2github https://github.com/cepreu2github @legrisdev https://github.com/legrisdev @marvin https://github.com/marvin

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[omidraha]

Agree.

[mutschler]

Agree

Am 04.05.2017 um 05:25 schrieb Omid Raha notifications@github.com:

Agree.

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