Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-10 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 4/10/20 6:18 PM, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > Pursuant to my words yesterday, I have licensed my Cartographor and > Rulekeepor code under the BSD 3-Clause License. I understand this may > seem hasty and that some may be against this premature licensing; > however, I opine that

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-10 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 4/9/20 8:57 PM, Reuben Staley wrote:> I shall put a license on my code as well. Probably a BSD or something else very permissive, and probably not MIT because I do care a little about attribution of the code. The problem is that everyone has slightly different thoughts about modification, att

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-10 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:58 AM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > The AgoraNomic/Header repo is almost entirely mine, but it does have some > very minor changes from PSS —probably not enough to qualify for copyright, > though, so I can probably license

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
Besides, none of us are exchanging thing sof value so there's no consideration On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:48 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 22:01 -0700, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Also, on the topic of real-worl

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 22:01 -0700, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > Also, on the topic of real-world law: I've long wondered if it's > worth the trouble to add a disclaimer to the ruleset to clarify that > it isn't enforceable as a real-world contract. Does that seem worth > doing? In m

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:01 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > I've added the following licenses to GitHub: > > > > * The ruleset v

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
> On Apr 9, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: > > I've added the following licenses to GitHub: > > * The ruleset viewer: MIT > * My Notary automation: MIT, with a note about the text of contracts. (Also, > I need to update that report. Sorry!) > > Additionally, I

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
I've added the following licenses to GitHub: * The ruleset viewer: MIT * My Notary automation: MIT, with a note about the text of contracts. (Also, I need to update that report. Sorry!) Additionally, I hereby release the following under CC0 (to avoid any risk of license incompatibility): * The

Re: DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 4/9/20 7:51 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: It appears that most of the code in the Agora GitHub org does not have a license on it. This potentially represents an issue for future officers who want to reuse code from current or past officeholders. Finally! A topic about which I am

DIS: Code licenses

2020-04-09 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
It appears that most of the code in the Agora GitHub org does not have a license on it. This potentially represents an issue for future officers who want to reuse code from current or past officeholders. For example, I have found Trigon's rulekeeping code to be extremely helpful. However, this is