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As the page doesn't make the licence immediately clear: this is not Free software. From the licence text on GitHub [0]: > 1.1 AnyGrids is provided free of cha
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
As the page doesn't make the licence immediately clear: this is not Free software.
From the licence text on GitHub [0]:
> 1.1 AnyGrids is provided free of charge and may be used by you for any legal purpose. Despite no charge for the product, there are a number of conditions for using this tool.
> 1.2 Your data file should not exceed 1MB.
[0] https://github.com/AnyGrids/AnyGrids/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://github.com/AnyGrids/AnyGrids/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- albertka 7y agoThanks so much for the comment! I removed it (1.2) from the license.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoThat's a step in the right direction, but it's still not Free software. Section 2.3 clearly breaches Freedom 1. [0] If you're serious about this project and want it to be adopted by Free / Open Source software projects, you should use a standard Free and Open Source software licence like the GPL or the MIT licence. It's a bad idea to roll your own non-standard licence, even if its terms are reasonable, and even if it meets the requirements for qualifying as a Free Software licence and an Open Source licence. [1] [2] [3] [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html [1] https://ben.balter.com/2016/08/01/why-you-shouldnt-write-your-own-open-source-license/ https://ben.balter.com/2016/08/01/why-you-shouldnt-write-you... [2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20110428141712/http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical https://web.archive.org/web/20110428141712/http://opensource...