[Tfug] Licensing for a forked project

[Raoul Snyman]

On 2018-03-08 09:48, Garrett Weaver wrote:
> Thank you Marcia! It looks like I do need to contact the owner then to
> issue a license for my fork. Interstingly the GitHub terms of services 
> does
> not grant other users a right to modify code, it just allows users to 
> fork
> a repo. Watch out for that everyone.

This is one of the (many) reasons I hate Github. It has muddied the 
difference between publicly available code and FLOSS code. Most people 
incorrectly assume that if they upload their code to a public Github 
repository that is is automatically open source. It is not, it's just 
out in the public. If you want your code to be FLOSS, you need to 
actually apply a license.



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