{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/87","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/87/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/87/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/87/events","html_url":"https://github.com/electology/approval_frame/issues/87","id":123838334,"number":87,"title":"Add a free/libre/open license!!","user":{"login":"wolftune","id":2801853,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2801853?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune","html_url":"https://github.com/wolftune","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wolftune/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/labels/priority:high","name":"priority:high","color":"e11d21"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-12-24T23:01:37Z","updated_at":"2016-01-05T05:26:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This code is all-rights-reserved by legal default until you add a license. Furthermore, you have to handle all sorts of challenges when accepting code from others if the licensing isn't clear. If you have a LICENSE file here, then others who adjust the code in a repository that has the same file can at least be assumed to stick to the same license.\r\n\r\nI would consider GNU AGPLv3+ (+ means include the \"or later\" clause) as the most community-centered freedom-respecting license. The only concern is that if you want to push adoption of this software by other websites which may be proprietary and where they would integrate this into their site, then you may want a more permissive license. GPLv3+ would be fine because it would be equally usable for even proprietary sites and the copyleft (i.e. share-alike / pass-on-the-freedoms) effect would only take place if someone distributes the code and not when they just use it on a site. You could slightly improve license-compatibility with GPLv2+ but that would lose the patent clauses and such. Otherwise, Apache v2 would be a decent option, or MIT to be most permissive. While I'd probably go with AGPLv3+ or maybe GPLv3+, *any* of these would be better than the really unacceptable state of having no license."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/comments/168902108","html_url":"https://github.com/electology/approval_frame/issues/87#issuecomment-168902108","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/electology/approval_frame/issues/87","id":168902108,"user":{"login":"lpsmith","id":98839,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/98839?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith","html_url":"https://github.com/lpsmith","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lpsmith/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-05T05:26:44Z","updated_at":"2016-01-05T05:26:44Z","body":"Well, a Contributor License Agreement doesn't necessarily imply copyright assignment,  though it often does.    It's not a terrible idea to obtain CLAs from everybody to clarify that the contributors retain the copyright and that they offer the software under whichever license the project is using."}}