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wkrzywiec / Nasa-Picture

Single-page application which display NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Open johndavidmarx opened 5 years ago

johndavidmarx commented 5 years ago

@wkrzywiec

I like your Spring Boot example and wanted to use it in a training class we have coming up. Unfortunately, without an open source license on the repo, my company will not let me use it. If you wrote the original program, is there any way I could convince you to add a Readme.md file to the repo with an MIT or other permissive open source license?

If you do that, then I think we can use it, and give you the credit when we do.

Thanks, John Marx

GitHub: johndavidmarx

johndavidmarx commented 5 years ago

I added a Readme.md file with the license in case you agree to use it. It is in a pull request in this repo that simply requires your approval. Thanks - John

johndavidmarx commented 5 years ago

One last thing, if you don't like the MIT license, an "unlicense" clause such as the one below would also make clear what your intentions for the code are: Here is the text.

"This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For more information, please refer to https://unlicense.org"

Thank you so much for considering this.