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License clarification #637

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mofojed opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #839
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License clarification #637

mofojed opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 5 comments · May be fixed by #839
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mofojed commented Apr 15, 2021

The LICENSE file in the project says it's an Apache license, but in the README.md, it says:

The style guides in this project are licensed under the CC-By 3.0 License, which encourages you to share these documents. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more details.

This seems to conflict. What does the Apache license cover?
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gpshead commented Apr 15, 2021

My gut feeling is that we mean Apache for any code in this repo and that CC license for the documents. I'll ask for clarification internally.

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marbre commented Nov 23, 2022

Any update on this?

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gpshead commented Nov 23, 2022

@shicks & @dseomn looks like you added the apache 2.0 LICENSE file to the styleguide repo in 2020. the existing README said creative commons. could you clarify this?

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dseomn commented Nov 23, 2022

If I remember correctly, I added the LICENSE file because I wanted to copy the pylint config file to https://github.com/dseomn/pepper-music-player/blob/main/third_party/google-styleguide/pylintrc following Google's guidelines for third_party imports. I don't think I knew about that line in README.md at the time. But it's also been a while and I'm not sure how accurate those memories are.

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marbre commented Jan 11, 2024

The initial README added with commit 51ce2f4 committed on May 20, 2015 refers to CC-BY-3.0

styleguide/README.md

Line 9 in 51ce2f4

These style guides are licensed under the CC-By 3.0 License, which encourages you to share these documents. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for more details.

whereas the Apache-2.0 license was added with commit f704c35 on Jan 3, 2020.

So I assume that files initially added before commit f704c35 from Jan 3, 2020 is licensed unter CC-BY-3.0 as it seems there was no explicit re-licensing or dual-licensing action. However, IANAL! A short statement / clarification from Google's lawyers would be appreciated.

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LICENSE: switch to CC-BY-3.0 google#637
ca30799 
We've always said the style guides are licensed under CC-By 3.0 in
our README file.  We use other licenses for code snippets, and list
those in the respective file headers, but the guides are the dominant
source in this repo, so list that in the LICENSE file.

Fixes google#637.
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LICENSE: switch to CC-BY-3.0 #637 vapier/styleguide
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