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tueda / makefile4latex

A GNU Makefile for typesetting LaTeX documents.
MIT License
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License statement / 使用許諾 #5

Closed bryan-lunt closed 5 years ago

bryan-lunt commented 5 years ago

Could you put a copyright statement/license header directly into this Makefile? Makefileに直接使用許諾を加えてくださいますか？今の状態で別のプロジェクトで使いにくいです。お願いします。

tueda commented 5 years ago

Thank you for pointing the license issue.

I'm not so familiar with subtle license things, but I hope the MIT license would be OK. In #6, I just put a minimal stuff about the license into the Makefile. Do you think it works for your usage?

bryan-lunt commented 5 years ago

This is a very good start, but I think ideally the license would be directly in the Makefile as comments near the top of the file. That way I can easily take only the Makefile itself and the license will never get separated from it. (But it is best to also keep the license as a separate file, for those who want to clone your entire repo.) Thanks for handling this (and creating the Makefile itself), I appreciate it a lot.

bryan-lunt commented 5 years ago

It's important to do it like this especially for academic usage, we always want to know the provenance of things and who created it, beyond what is required by simple legality.

tueda commented 5 years ago

Now, merged.

I feel licensing is a bit tricky some cases...I read articles saying CC0 or WTFPL or Unlicense would be risky and MIT is safe.