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by abrichr 980 days ago
Thank you for pointing this out! You are correct that we have not yet decided on a license.

I will admit my ignorance on this topic, and I didn't want us to rush into selecting a license that is inappropriate.

Which one should we choose?
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webappguy 980 days ago
If it's for the win (?), the most permissible is the one you choose. This is a extraordinarily competitive space. The sooner you make the choice and it's MIT, the sooner I personally put forth serious contribution time and the faster you grow in the broad and competitive ecosystem. Your main options are GNU All-permissive License, MIT License, BSD licenses, Apple Public Source License and Apache license.

It is recommended by this developer you go MIT

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abrichr 980 days ago
Done: https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/blob/main/LICENSE
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coder543 980 days ago
> Which one should we choose?

It depends a lot on what you want the license to do, so I don’t really want to say one way or another.

IANAL, but my understanding is that code without a license effectively has an “all rights reserved” license in the U.S., meaning that it can’t be used for anything at all — even non-commercial work.

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