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license as public domain? #65

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derhuerst opened this issue Jan 21, 2020 · 5 comments
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license as public domain? #65

derhuerst opened this issue Jan 21, 2020 · 5 comments
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@derhuerst
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derhuerst commented Jan 21, 2020

It's a bit impractical that I need to provide attribution when I derive work from FPTF, because

  • it's hard to "pass through" the attribution through several levels of libraries and abstractions,
  • it's hard to know when something is considered derived work from a technical standard/format.

I propose to re-license (or un-license rather) FPTF into the public domain to allow for more wide-spread usage. This would require all contributors to acknowledge this change.

GTFS is currently licensed as Apache-2.0.

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Maybe CC0 would be better? Public domain can be tricky when one applies legal situation very strictly.

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@juliuste @matkoniecz @kiliankoe Do you explicitly consent to re-publish your contributions under the CC0 license?

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yes

@kiliankoe
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Sure!

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yes (:

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