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The "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License" is an "open source" license. The source code itself is "open" and can be redistr
by yaddayadda 13y ago
The "Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License" is an "open source" license. The source code itself is "open" and can be redistributed for free (beer not speech). But it is disappointing that they have opted to prohibit derivatives, and it makes their posting of the code to GitHub an interesting choice.
- eli 13y agoA pull request would technically be violating the license, no?
- yaddayadda 13y agoIANAL, but as I understand the license, yes it would violate the license. Although, if I released something under a no-derivatives license on github, I'd be less worried about pull requests and more worried about derivatives made outside GitHub.
- joestringer 13y agoWhat if you clone the repo before the license was added? Then do you get code in the public domain?
- nitrogen 13y agoNo, the default state of software is copyrighted and not redistributable. You need a specific license to give you the right to modify and/or redistribute software (though I think copyright should be changed to allow private modification for certain purposes).