[Tfug] Licensing for a forked project

[Garrett Weaver]

Good news! I got in touch with the project owner from the forked project.
We both agreed to license our projects under GPLv3.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Raoul Snyman <raoul at snyman.info> wrote:

> 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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