Add the 2003 M.I.T. licence notice to master (lost in backporting) - #6
Open
king-aj3 wants to merge 1 commit into
Open
Add the 2003 M.I.T. licence notice to master (lost in backporting)#6king-aj3 wants to merge 1 commit into
king-aj3 wants to merge 1 commit into
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The
masterbranch currently carries no licence file, and its sources stillcarry the 1994 M.I.T. header, which states that distribution is "strictly
prohibited without prior written consent of M.I.T."
The M.I.T.-copyrighted material was re-released in 2003 under permissive
terms, and that text is already in this repository — in
License_and_history/license_for_sources_4.0.txton theWinMSVSbranch,under "License agreement for the M.I.T. copyrighted material". As you noted
by email, the 2003 notice stopped appearing on
masteras a result of thebackporting.
This adds a
LICENSE.txtat the root ofmasterreproducing that 2003section verbatim, so the terms travel with the branch as they do on
WinMSVS. The 2003 licence itself requires that "the above copyright notice
and this permission notice must appear in all copies".
Deliberately not included: any statement about the licence covering
FastFieldSolvers' own modifications on this branch. Only you can state that,
and I did not want to presume it.
Also not touched: the 1994 headers in the source files that carry them.
Updating those is a larger and more opinionated change, and it is yours to
make — but they are what a reader hits first, so it may be worth a follow-up.
No obligation to take this; close it freely if you would rather do it your
own way.