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Missing license #13

Closed sciunto closed 9 years ago

sciunto commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I think it would be convenient to have a license on this repository to ease future reuse (to avoid to contact the author(s)) and also to welcome future contributions.

tacaswell commented 9 years ago

Which raises the interesting question of which license we want to use for docs/examples. I suspect the easiest/safest this is to just use bsd to match everything else. I know that FSF has a documentation-specific version of the GPL. I think that is mostly so they can make a sub-set of the documentation immutable by non-copyright holders, but is probably worth a bit of thought on that front.

It might also be worth going with one of the creative commons licenses or just public domain on these.

danielballan commented 9 years ago

+1 for CC-* but no strong opinion. We should think carefully about this because we want to encourage people to share the analysis behind published or publishable research.

On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 2:28:17 PM Thomas A Caswell notifications@github.com wrote:

Which raises the interesting question of which license we want to use for docs/examples. I suspect the easiest/safest this is to just use bsd to match everything else. I know that FSF has a documentation-specific version of the GPL. I think that is mostly so they can make a sub-set of the documentation immutable by non-copyright holders, but is probably worth a bit of thought on that front.

It might also be worth going with one of the creative commons licenses or just public domain on these.

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sciunto commented 9 years ago

Side remark: nothing prevents to use several licenses for the entire repository. (Ex GFDL + CC By SA or any other combination). In my organization (april.org), we use GFDL + CC By SA + LAL for broad future possibilities.

danielballan commented 9 years ago

@sciunto I have no objection to that. Would you open a PR to add such a license?

sciunto commented 9 years ago

@danielballan Sure. Do you prefer GFDL + CC By SA + LAL (ie with the copyleft) or BSD + CC By (no copyleft)?

tacaswell commented 9 years ago

My personal politics aside, I would opt for the no-copyleft license. The goal is to get people to use this stuff.

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@danielballan https://github.com/danielballan Sure. Do you prefer GFDL

  • CC By SA + LAL (ie with the copyleft) or BSD + CC By (no copyleft)?

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sciunto commented 9 years ago

Just to make sure you all saw the PR: #15