Add license to project

Question

Add license to project

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 3 comments

A licence should be selected and added to the project. Then, license boilerplate can be added to source code files as needed.

Answer 1 · 2014-11-03T21:06:57.000Z

I believe that GitHub used to default all public repositories to some open-source license, but their terms now state that standard copyright laws apply if a license isn't explicitly selected. So, that seems to mean that this repository is under copyright and not actually open-source anymore.

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm thinking I'll use MIT for simplicity, and because I don't think we really need more than that.

Input is welcome.

Answer 2 · 2014-11-06T02:27:07.000Z

You're the cake boss. MIT is fine.

Is it sufficient to put a license file in the root folder, or do individual code files need to be annotated?

Answer 3 · 2014-11-12T19:36:36.000Z

I believe a license file at the root is sufficient. I used GitHub user names in place of real names, but that can be changed if we feel it's necessary.