From cc9a49f7c2289534eccba01bfe7bb49ddbb6bb04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:49:40 +0200 Subject: chore: change licence to MIT Sponsored-by: author --- license.mdwn | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) diff --git a/license.mdwn b/license.mdwn index a69a660..c97b26a 100644 --- a/license.mdwn +++ b/license.mdwn @@ -1,41 +1,29 @@ -[[!meta title="Licenses"]] - -[four freedoms]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html -[GNU General Public Licence, version 3 or later]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html -[Apache 2.0]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -[CC-BY-SA 4.0 (International)]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ - -We have chosen software licenses for this project following these -principles: - -* Subplot itself is free software, meaning it provides all the [four - freedoms][] as defined by the Free Software Foundation: use (for - whatever purpose), study and change, share, share modified versions. - -* Subplot should have little effect on the licensing of the outputs. - -While we would prefer it if everyone only produced free software, we -don't want to mandate it, and thus we've chosen to use a mix of -permissive and copyleft licenses for different parts of the project. - -As long as you only run Subplot, you don't need to care about the -licences, and you can use the outputs as you wish. - -* The Subplot tooling (document and test program generators) are - licensed under the [GNU General Public Licence, version 3 or - later][]. - -* The documents and test programs generated by Subplot have whatever - licence the input documents have. Subplot has no effect on their - licences. - -* Subplot uses templates, libraries, and scaffolding to produce the - test programs. These are licensed under the [Apache 2.0][] licence, - but with the extra permission that when they're used to generate - outputs by Subplot, they don't affect the licence of the generated - test programs. The programs generated by Subplot have the license of - the inputs. - -* The Subplot documentation, inluding examples, are licensed under the - [CC-BY-SA 4.0 (International)][] licence. This is better suited for - documentation than the code licences above. +[[!meta title="Licences"]] + +Subplot itself is licensed under the MIT-0 licence. The [Subplot +logo](/subplot.svg) is under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence +(). + +Copyright 2019-2021 Lars Wirzenius, Daniel Silverstone + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +“Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. +IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY +CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, +TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE +SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +Fork this project to create your own MIT license that you can always +link to. -- cgit v1.2.1