Do we need an open source license for this?
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I don't have any specific experience navigating the various public licenses out there, and not sure if we need to use GPLv3, MIT, WTFPL or what have you.
lol as much as i love wtfpl, i wouldn't use it here....not sure about the other two.
you could always use cc and release it to public domain....
Yes, giving it some kind of license is a good idea. It lets you dictate the terms of how the code is used. A Creative Commons attribution or non-commercial license would be fine (depending on whether you care about commercial vs. non-commercial use of your code). A GPL license is probably fine as well. The MIT license is useless except as a CYA measure (because of the 'as is' clause.
Let me count the code length. If you have under 300 sloc, I'd say Apache 2.0, otherwise GPLv3. For the API and scraper, I'd say Affero GPLv3. My suggestions.
EDIT: Yeah, easily GPLv3. You should include the header in each HTML/CSS/JS file and make a license web labels page for the dependencies and any minified code.
In that case, unless there are any objections, 1.1 is going out with a GPL v3 license.
Addressed in #165 by @ryayak1460