Repo License

[cakiki]

Hello, I would like to reuse a fork of this repo in a project and was wondering what license this is released under, if any.

[leighmcculloch]

It doesn't have a license. Unfortunately I didn't include a license, and since multiple people have contributed since then, I believe I would need to request permission from all contributors to add a license. I guess we can try and do that though, no harm in trying.

[cakiki]

Thank you! What license would you like to go for, in case the contributors are in agreement?

Also cc'ing people who I found in the closed PRs tab to see whether they'd be okay with licensing their contributions:

• @adsouza (Added Lua #9 and Add Dart #3)
• @kryskool (Add 2 new keyword, since Python 3.7 #5)
• @yene (Added JavaScript #6)
• @trin94 (Update Java keywords #4)

(Also cc'ing @e3b0c442 whose fork I was referring to in my original message 😃 )

[adsouza]

Fine with me.

[leighmcculloch]

I suggest we apply MIT.

[e3b0c442]

re: the fork, this is a bit hairy legal-wise because I never actually ended up using any of the original code or data that @leighmcculloch and contributors compiled, as can be seen in e3b0c442@74adb73; I think doing so was my original intent in making the fork, but then I got myself down a caffeine-fueled rabbit hole.

That said, I did start with a fork, I want to make sure @leighmcculloch is credited for the original idea, and I will happily comply with the upstream licensing decisions, but if I'm licensing my own work in isolation I would choose MIT for the code and CC-BY-4.0 for the compiled data.

Thanks for bringing this up, it's a good reminder to people like me that see cool things and want to build on them that we need to pay attention to licensing (or lack thereof).

[leighmcculloch]

@cakiki Maybe best to open an issue on @e3b0c442's fork requesting a license be added to it. Looks like the fork is more its own creation, and not a modification of this repo. I'm still happy to add an MIT license to this repo if the contributors all respond acknowledging such, but I don't think it solves your problem.

[trin94]

MIT is fine for me 👍😄

[yene]

Fine with me.

[kryskool]

Ok for MIT licence