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Exitwp is tool primarily aimed for making migration from one or more wordpress blogs to the jekyll blog engine as easy as possible.
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License? #55

Open dwlf opened 10 years ago

dwlf commented 10 years ago

@thomasf , I read

The problem is, I created this project to get out of wordpress.. Now when I'm out the incentive to work actively on exitwp is kind of low.

You have no obligation, but if you were to choose an open source license, then this project would be free ;-)

thomasf commented 10 years ago

Ok, it's cc0/public domain/mit, at least for the parts that I have written.. Since I have taken pull requests without a stated contributor agreement I guess the license can only cover what I have written.

omajid commented 4 years ago

Ok, it's cc0/public domain/mit, at least for the parts that I have written.. Since I have taken pull requests without a stated contributor agreement I guess the license can only cover what I have written.

The flip side, though, is that everything contributed by others is proprietary. An extreme interpretation is that no one has any right to even run this code. That seems kind of crazy and defeats the purpose of a project published on github completely.

Do you need help cleaning this up? I can help and try reaching out to everyone who contributed fixes and reverting the changes from people not willing to license it under an open source license.

omajid commented 4 years ago

html2text.py (originally from https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/blob/master/html2text.py) is under the GPL 3.

That means the rest of the code, which uses html2text.py must be under GPL v3 as well to comply with the license of html2text.py.