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All the files for ZX-Uno project repository
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Specify which license is being used for this project #23

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

There is no license text at all and the text in the readme.md file says that "License is Creative Commons by SA" but what did author mean? There are several versions of CC BY-SA: be specific about which Creative Commons license is being used. The absence of the clear license text may prevent developers from contributing to this project. The most recent one is Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International which is marked as "libre" at SPDX licenses list. We may choose that license by default for all files with no copyright and licensing information embedded. The simplest way is to modify the text in readme.md file like this:

markdown format:

Used licenses:
* cores and ugophy (gopher browser) each have it's own licenses
* files without explicit license are under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)) license

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Used licenses:

  • cores and ugophy (gopher browser) each have it's own licenses
  • files without explicit license are under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license

When contributing to this project I follow REUSE recomendations on how to specify copyright and licensing information (at least in sdk folder of this project). For example:

The decision must be done by the respective owners of affected parts of this project.

ghost commented 3 years ago

When there will be an explicit license specified for the project I can continue moving used tools (often duplicated all over the project's folders) into a single SDK with proper copyright and licensing notices. This will ease further development. Thank you for understanding.

antoniovillena commented 3 years ago

Use GPLv3 as default as I said because it's the one used by McLeod on his core and I have not preferences on my tools

ghost commented 3 years ago

Ok. I'll continue adding provided sources from you under GPLv3.