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Zabuzard opened this issue Sep 5, 2021 · 6 comments
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Which License to use? #5

Zabuzard opened this issue Sep 5, 2021 · 6 comments
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Zabuzard commented Sep 5, 2021

Which license should we pick for this repository?

What about:

  1. GPL 3
  2. MIT
  3. Apache 2.0

Other proposals are also welcome!

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Zabuzard commented Sep 5, 2021

I prefer GPL 3 due to the copyleft aspect.

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Zabuzard commented Sep 5, 2021

From @illuminator3 :

Unlicense so that there are basically no restrictions and anyone can use the source code like they want. This would make sense since we're already an open community, accepting everyone to contribute.

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+1 for copyleft licenses

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marko-radosavljevic commented Sep 7, 2021

Unlicense so that there are basically no restrictions and anyone can use the source code like they want. This would make sense since we're already an open community, accepting everyone to contribute.

GPL v3 allows all the openness, it's a real open-source license. Everyone can contribute and use code however they want. The only restriction is changing the license to a private one.

The idea is to keep open-source projects open, so that every contribution or upgrade gets back to the community.

The licenses were originally written by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), for the GNU Project.

It can't be more free, libre and open-source than Richard Stallman free. ^^

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I am all for inclusiveness, I think anybody should be able to download, modify, and use for commercial or non commercial applications but I don't think people should be able to sublicense. I'm leaning more towards GPL3, if not we just say 'F' it and use unlicense. Either very little restrictions or none at all IMO.

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Zabuzard commented Sep 7, 2021

We will start with GPL v3 until the community has a strong preference to change.

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