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Choose a suitable license to your package #51

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jdaduica opened this issue Jan 27, 2025 · 5 comments
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Choose a suitable license to your package #51

jdaduica opened this issue Jan 27, 2025 · 5 comments
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We need to discuss whether we want to keep the MIT License or change to a new one

@jdaduica jdaduica added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Jan 27, 2025
@Elshaday-Tamire Elshaday-Tamire moved this to Future to do in dsci_524_ezplot Jan 27, 2025
@Elshaday-Tamire Elshaday-Tamire added this to the Milestone 4 milestone Jan 31, 2025
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jdaduica commented Jan 31, 2025

I think the MIT License is a good choice for our project so we can keep the project under an open-source licenses. I think it is a good idea to allow anyone to use, modify, and distribute our software package. I think that we should encourage collaboration and let people adopt our package into their work. Let me know what others prefer!

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Yeah, it's really easy to get. Unlike other licenses that are full of complicated legal jargon, this one is short and straightforward. That makes it a lot simpler for us developers and contributors to know exactly what we can and can't do with the code.

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Yes, I think another big plus is that it also shields us from legal responsibility. This is important if people start using it in critical applications because the license disclaims any responsibility for problems that may occur when it is used.

@Elshaday-Tamire Elshaday-Tamire moved this from Future to do to In progress in dsci_524_ezplot Feb 1, 2025
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Good point! Plus, using a permissive license like MIT means our code can be easily integrated into both open-source and proprietary projects.

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jdaduica commented Feb 2, 2025

Ok great, glad we all agree! We will keep the MIT license for this project then.

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