License

[calvinte]

Wondering if you plan on attaching a MIT or GPL license to this?

Thanks

[stephband]

Why would I? On 7 Jan 2013 22:36, "Calvin Tennant" notifications@github.com wrote:

Wondering if you plan on attaching a MIT or GPL license to this?

Thanks

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/stephband/jquery.event.swipe/issues/3.

[calvinte]

Many enterprise applications require any open source code to be licensed in order to qualify for inclusion. Attaching one of these licenses will ensure that any potential contributors/users of this software can do so without legal concern.

[devsnd]

+1, just wondered. jQuery is licensed under MIT, so I first assumend this was MIT-licensed as well, but since you didn't specify... Well, my project is GPLed, so there shouldn't be any problem. Still, it would be nice to have it on "paper".

Same goes for jquery.event.move, btw.

[stephband]

I don't agree with the whole licensing thing. I think we should be allowed to publish what we want, unlicensed. However, the jquery plugins site requires a license before you can publish plugins to it, so jquery.event.swipe does now have a reference to a license specified in the package.json.

On 6 February 2013 19:38, Tom Wallroth notifications@github.com wrote:

+1, just wondered. jQuery is licensed under MIT, so I first assumend this was MIT-licensed as well, but since you didn't specify... Well, my project is GPLed, so there shouldn't be any problem. Still, it would be nice to have it on "paper".

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/stephband/jquery.event.swipe/issues/3#issuecomment-13197575.

[devsnd]

Well, I understand if you're not into the licensing stuff. But let me give you this advice, just use the WTFPL

Terms:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
                Version 2, December 2004 

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net> 

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified 
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long 
as the name is changed. 

        DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

:)

[stephband]

I have! It's listed in package.json. On 8 Feb 2013 12:51, "Tom Wallroth" notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, I understand if you're not into the licensing stuff. But let me give you this advice, just use the http://www.wtfpl.net/about/

Terms:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar sam@hocevar.net

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed.

    DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

1. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

:)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/stephband/jquery.event.swipe/issues/3#issuecomment-13287227.

[devsnd]

Ah, I see, you have done so for jquery.event.move... Would you be so kind to add it also to jquery.event.swipe?

[roblarsen]

+1 on this. I'm in this camp:

Many enterprise applications require any open source code to be licensed in order to qualify for inclusion. Attaching one of these licenses will ensure that any potential contributors/users of this software can do so without legal concern.

I can't use software without a license that I can point to when the lawyers call.

[calvinte]

See #4