Consider adding a license
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See https://choosealicense.com/ for tl;dr and to confirmation that it is a real problem
Currently no license is mentioned anywhere, what makes this code fully copyrighted. This is a default for any creative work - what includes software.
Please, please add a license. The fact none is listed makes using this software a legal quagmire.
For start - people are not allowed to make own program based on examples you published - as it is fully copyrighted.
Hopefully this is not the intended effect, given that code was open sourced and published as a tutorial .
In case that for some reason not releasing it under open license is intentional - mentioning it in the readme also would be a good idea. Though note that given that it is open sourced it will not stop anyone not caring about copyrights.
Popular licences include:
- MIT license that allows people to use code for any purpose
- GNU GPLv3 that intends to allow everything but to block people from distributing closed source versions that build on open source project
Feel free to ask me questions :) I know and understand that people often prefer to ignore copyright law, unfortunately it will not make it disappear.
In my specific case I wanted to use https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/how-to-do-a-sankey-plot-in-python-5298869f5e8e tutorial code but now I will need to do in some way that will be sufficiently distinct from reusing tutorial code to be copyright-safe.
Done added MIT License