I try to put a license file and appropriate statements in the documentation and code for all of my PLaneT packages. [Remember that the license for the code may be different that that for the documentation.] I've almost certainly missed doing that sometimes.
So, I think it would be good to make it easy (or a firm requirement) to supply the license(s) in the meta-data. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Matt Jadud <jad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought it was neat to see someone submit a Firmata library to the > Planet. > > http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=firmata.plt&owner=xtofs > > That said, it contains nothing whatsoever about a license. I can't > remember: does the package metadata have an explicit license field? > Should it be a required field? > > I poked a few libraries in the list; Untyped seems to be reasonably > fastidious about including a LICENSE file, but this doesn't show up in > the metadata. The handful of other libraries I looked at contained > nothing in the docs or the code w.r.t. either copyright or license. > > Does this matter? When a GPL'd piece of Racket code does a planet > require and pulls in code of unknown provenance... is it pulling in a > binary? Source? Is that code still GPL'd, or is it now in violation > (or some other confusing state of being)? > > Just to spot check what other communities do, I looked at CPAN. (No > doubt mentioning CPAN in the same message as PLaneT could start a > flame war, but that's not my intent...) > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/cpan_licensing_guidelines > > They require a clear license. > > I don't really do enough hacking/contributing in the PLT space at the > moment for this to be much more than a "troll" in some ways, but it > certainly isn't meant that way. It's just that I was glad to see a > connectivity layer for working with the Arduino appear, and then > realized that the code wasn't licensed in any way... raising questions > about how I could use it in my own programming. > > Cheers, > Matt > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >
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