License?
AlexErrant opened this issue · comments
Hi! Would you mind giving this repo a license? I'd love to copy https://github.com/Azarattum/CRStore/blob/main/src/lib/database/dialect.ts for my own proj. Thanks!
Honestly speaking I really don't care about licenses... So, I've never taken a time to compare and choose one. Maybe I should just slap MIT on it, since it seems like what everyone's using. Would that work for you @AlexErrant?
Yeah... I definitely had my eyes glaze over when trying to compare licenses. https://choosealicense.com/ is a good starting point, if you wanna look around. If not, MIT works well for me - thanks!
Btw, is there a way to add a license without a LICENSE file, so that it can be recognized by NPM, GitHub, etc? Maybe like a link in readme of something. I really don't like the idea of a copy pasted bulk of text just sitting there in the project root.
NPM packages can define a license in their packge.json as described here. For example:
{
"name": "solid-start-monorepo",
"description": "Official starter for SolidJS",
"version": "0.1.0",
"author": "Ryan Carniato",
"type": "module",
"license": "MIT"
}But, unfortunately, I believe that having a LICENSE in the project root is the standard. I'm not sure if having a "license": "MIT" in the package.json has any legal standing, or if it's just there for the bots. My impression is that it's for the bots, since the somewhat minimal "MIT" doesn't give lawyers any handholds on which to create problems for themselves. I've given up on having a clean root dir myself 😭