Please add a license file to this repo
jon-garner opened this issue · comments
Thank you for sharing this repo with us!
Could you please add an explicit LICENSE file to the repo so that it's clear
under what terms the content is provided, and under what terms user
contributions are licensed?
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Thanks!
Hm. Well, it's not that I don't want to, but navigating the licensing of all the upstream works is a bit tricky. IIRC the original Python implementation was BSD-3 (?), but I wrote most of this code based on stuff from uwot, which is GPL-3.
IANAL but I guess that makes umappp GPL-3 as well.
Tagging @jlmelville if he has thoughts on this, otherwise I'll just slap the GPL-3 license in here later today.
Uwot is GPL-3 only because to integrate with R I must include Rcpp headers which therefore requires the R package as a whole to be licensed as GPL. However the non-R-binding C++ code (anything in the uwot namespace) is licensed as BSD 2-clause and should say as much in every header file (please let me know if I missed one). I am usually better about specifying the vagaries of the licensing of the bindings vs the underlying library that is being wrapped so I should update the README. Sorry for any confusion.