License

[mihi-tr]

Did we add a license to our project? If not what license should we pick? @maciej @ianschuler @drewbo @darkobrkan

[maciej]

I have no opinion on that. I typically would tend to use a moderately permissive license, like APL2.0, but I have never put a lot of thought into it.

[annakuliberda]

Michael what license you would recommend?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Maciej Biłas [email protected]
wrote:

I have no opinion on that. I typically would tend to use a moderately
permissive license, like APL2.0, but I have never put a lot of thought into
it.

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[mihi-tr]

I do like the 2-clause BSD license. Which is very permissive - but happy with anything you pick.

[maciej]

+1 for BSD from me.

[ianschuler]

Why not CC0?

[informationchef]

+1 BSD/Apache. Did we specify which Creative Commons license we're using
for the documents/images? Attribution?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Maciej Biłas [email protected]
wrote:

+1 for BSD from me as well.

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[annakuliberda]

Do you think we should license the data or just leave it open? Since it is so unclear on the state level.

[ianschuler]

@annakuliberda I think we should at least license the data CC0 / Public Domain

I'm fine w/ BSD for the code, but also legitimately curious why other folks prefer it.

[maciej]

@ianschuler I gravitate towards permissive licenses, probably mostly because I believe that in general they facilitate easier reuse of code. 'BSD' license is usually whitelisted in companies that pass every piece of code they reuse by the legal department. AFAIR it's also GPL compatible.

I don't know if this is the argument based on which we should choose a license for this project. They just influence the option I choose by default.

[mihi-tr]

@ianschuler I do like BSD for its simplicity :)

[ianschuler]

thanks @maciej & @mihi-tr. I appreciate you getting back.

I don't think there is anything more simple or permissive than Public Domain / CC0. But I don't have strong feelings on how we license the code. I feel more strongly that the data be Public Domain.

[annakuliberda]

Ok, so as a summary, we take
CC0 for data
2-clause BSD for the code
CC-BY 4.0 for the images and text

any last thoughts or objections?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:15 PM, ianschuler [email protected]
wrote:

thanks @maciej https://github.com/maciej & @mihi-tr
https://github.com/mihi-tr. I appreciate you getting back.

I don't think there is anything more simple or permissive than Public
Domain / CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. But I
don't have strong feelings on how we license the code. I feel more strongly
that the data be Public Domain.

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[mihi-tr]

Agree - let's do this.