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Creation of LICENSE file to add a license #1

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@s-a-m s-a-m commented Apr 9, 2023

By default, any creative work without an explicit license, including Github repositories, have the most restrictive of them all: exclusive "all rights reserved" copyright. I assume that since you have your (awesome) software in a Github repository, it is your intent for people to use it, fork it and improve it. Thus, I'd strongly advise to add an open source license to facilitate this -- otherwise, it would be illegal to use this code in any way. If you want to allow any use of it, I'd recommend a MIT License. Since you may opt to protect its code from any third-party wanting to profit from it, you may prefer to use the AGPL License (which is the one I'm including in this pull-request). I am happy to help clarify doubts or uncertainties around all this, or help choose another license if you don't like these.

By default, any creative work without an explicit license, including Github repositories, have the most restrictive of them all: exclusive "all rights reserved" copyright. I assume that since you have your (awesome) software in a Github repository, it is your intent for people to use it, fork it and improve it. Thus, I'd strongly advise to add an open source license to facilitate this -- otherwise, it would be illegal to use this code in any way. If you want to allow any use of it, I'd recommend a MIT License. Since you may opt to protect its code from any third-party wanting to profit from it, you may prefer to use the AGPL License (which is the one I'm including in this pull-request). I am happy to help clarify doubts or uncertainties around all this, or help choose another license if you don't like these.
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