! Open Source (software) software that can be freely used, modified, and shared (in both modified and unmodified form) by anyone help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#open-source
! Open Source a philosophy of collaboration in which working materials are made available online for anyone to fork, modify, discuss, and contribute to.
‣ There’s a bajillion different options ‣ Every discussion results in a holy war ‣ Open source licensing isn’t taught in law school ‣ Devs today grew up in a world in which open source has won
! What’s necessary to license a project? ‣ LICENSE file with the full text of the license ‣ LICENSE file with the license name or abbreviation ‣ README which links to the full license text ‣ README which references the license ‣ Human readable references within a file ‣ Machine-readable package manager config file Halp? github.com/licensee/issues/4
license = Licensee.license "/path/to/a/project" => # license.key => "mit" license.name => "MIT License" license.meta["source"] => "http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" license.meta["description"] => "A permissive license that is short and to the point. It lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty." license.meta["permitted"] => ["modifications","distribution","sublicense","private-use"] Ruby
$ curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.drax-preview+json' \ https://api.github.com/licenses/mit { "key": "mit", "name": "MIT License", "url": "https://api.github.com/licenses/mit", "featured": true, "html_url": "http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/", "description": "A permissive license that is short and to the point. It lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty.", "category": "MIT", "implementation": "Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [year] with the current year and [fullname] with the name (or names) of the copyright holders.", "required": [ "include-copyright" ], "permitted": [ "commercial-use", "modifications", "distribution",
A couple of caveats ‣ Only looking at public repos ‣ Only looking at non-fork repos ‣ Only looking at non-spammy users ‣ Excludes some edge cases like Project GITinberg ‣ I’m terrible at math (at even worse at MySQL)
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