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Add license #14

Closed royvegard closed 3 years ago

royvegard commented 4 years ago

Add a (preferably open source compatible) license.

I would like to publish the Rust version on https://crates.io, but that requires a license.

ianhbell commented 4 years ago

Can they do a MIT license, where the indicates some NIST-specific requirements on top of the MIT license?

royvegard commented 4 years ago

Yes. The requirement is only that a license is defined, and not the actual contents of the license. We can use the license-file key to point to a custom license file.

From The Cargo Book:

# This is an SPDX 2.1 license expression for this package. Currently
# crates.io will validate the license provided against a whitelist of
# known license and exception identifiers from the SPDX license list
# 3.6. Parentheses are not currently supported.
#
# Multiple licenses can be separated with a `/`, although that usage
# is deprecated. Instead, use a license expression with AND and OR
# operators to get more explicit semantics.
license = "..."

# If a package is using a nonstandard license, then this key may be specified in
# lieu of the above key and must point to a file relative to this manifest
# (similar to the readme key).
license-file = "..."
// String of the license for the package.
// May be null. crates.io requires either `license` or `license_file` to be set.
"license": null,
// String of a relative path to a license file in the crate.
// May be null.
"license_file": null,
royvegard commented 4 years ago

@ianhbell, have you thought more about adding a license file?

ianhbell commented 4 years ago

I'm making inquiries with our legal folks...

Ledragon commented 3 years ago

Hey, thanks for the library. Interested in knowing the licensing terms as well ;-)

Ledragon commented 3 years ago

FYI, I found the following reference: https://asgmt.com/paper/2019/page/2/

In this pdf, page 3, you can read this:

The code was translated into both Fortran and C, and all three codes are made freely available from AGA or NIST6. This work was done at NIST on the condition that the material would not be copyrighted and would be made available to all without charge so that others could use and/or modify the code as necessary for any application.

Ledragon commented 3 years ago

Thanks!