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Sample project relicensing #1145

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GarboMuffin opened this issue Nov 15, 2023 · 6 comments · Fixed by #1318
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Sample project relicensing #1145

GarboMuffin opened this issue Nov 15, 2023 · 6 comments · Fixed by #1318

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GarboMuffin commented Nov 15, 2023 •
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I've sort of just realized we never decided on a license for the sample projects, so they've been GPLv3'd this entire time as that's the default for things in this repository. That's a problem as we want these to be something people can base their projects on, but they are unknowingly being subject to the GPL's virality clauses. Not ideal.

My proposal is that we relicense them under CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/:

  • GPLv3 compatible
  • credit required (we can add comments inside the sample projects)
  • no GPL virality or share-alike clause, commercial use allowed
  • standard code licenses don't apply well to things like images/sounds/etc. inside the sample projects
  • matches how people are actually going to use them anyways
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@LilyMakesThings @DNin01 @Xeltalliv @David-Orangemoon

You contributed sample projects so this would require your consent

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I consent

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Ok

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DNin01 commented Nov 15, 2023

Yeah, I think a Creative Commons license is a better fit for them. I'd be fine with CC-BY 4.0.

Does that apply to the assets they re-use from other sources? Most of mine just use TurboWarp-logo-related things, the Dango from Twemoji, and some simple shapes and icons, but one of them uses Turbo Robot, which was made for TurboWarp by a Scratch user. Do we need to add any notes/credits there?

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It would be a good idea to credit things appropriately

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this is fine

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Add licensing metadata, recommended LGPL-3.0, other licensing revisits (
b7d740b 
#1318)

* New metadata comment: `// License: SPDX-License-Identifier-Here`,
required for everything in extensions.json. The names come from this
industry-standard list: https://spdx.org/licenses/
* LGPL-3.0 is now HIGHLY recommended instead of MIT but ultimately we'll
let authors choose (at least for now)
* I am assuming that extension authors wish for their things to remain
MIT unless they ask otherwise. If you do ask, I'll mark existing
extensions as `MIT AND LGPL-3.0` instead of `LGPL-3.0` because we can't
just ignore contributions by other people.
* Retroactively changing the license to something more restrictive is
not really possible, so this will just affect *future* changes
* Closes #1145 by
documenting that they are CC-BY-4.0
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Add licensing metadata, recommended LGPL-3.0, other licensing revisits TurboWarp/extensions
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