Missing license statement

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Missing license statement

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 6 comments

The project includes many files with a license header, but I did not find any information on the license used by the whole project. Is it GPL2 / GPL2+ / GPL3 / GPL3+?

I suggest to add a license file in the standard form which is recognized by GitHub and other tools.

Answer 1 · 2018-01-06T07:08:23.000Z

@albig What is the standard procedure for licensing of TYPO3 extensions?

Answer 2 · 2018-01-06T07:27:33.000Z

That's not only related to TYPO3. The LICENCE.txt file is missing. See https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/. We should put the same as in Kitodo.Presentation.

Answer 3 · 2018-01-06T07:28:21.000Z

According to https://typo3.org/index.php?id=782, GPL2+ seems to be the right choice. GPL3 / GPL3+ are compatible to GPL2+, so I think that using them would also be possible.

Obviously TYPO3 documentation requires a different license, see https://forge.typo3.org/issues/46163.

Answer 4 · 2018-01-06T07:31:11.000Z

I think that using the same license (GPL3) as for Kitodo.Presentation would be reasonable.

Answer 5 · 2018-01-06T07:33:41.000Z

By the way: The trigger for this issue was https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47007505 (which already suggests that GPL3 is used).

Answer 6 · 2018-01-08T08:07:19.000Z

Thanks a lot.