[kforge-dev] Re: licence for kforge code

[John Bywater]

Hi Rufus,

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>> I'd prefer 1, given the system we are deriving from is GPL, and we 
>> don't have a business plan for selling licenses, so that's probably a 
>> sideshow that we should just forget about in order to keep things as 
>> simple as possible.
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> Agree totally.


Great.

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> I think, subject to comments from others that we should go down the 
> pure GPL route.


OK. I've set things up to be (provisionally) under GPL in the Python 
package.


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> My suggestion is that we should put the copyright under the name of 
> the Open Knowledge Foundation initially and add other groups as 
> necessary (how does this work on other projects ...?). Of course there 
> should always be a credits file that lists /all/ contributors.


OK, that's totally fine. Let's do that. The copyright holder shall be 
the Open Knowledge Foundation, and authors will be acknowledged.

Regards,

John.

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