Add contributor license

[djfurman]

Excited for this project; would you please consider adding a license to this repository so I can contribute to your documentation? I have a PR ready to help improve, but I need a license declared for review by our open source office.

[msrd0]

Hi @djfurman and thanks for your interest in this project!

I'd expect I can't just upload a license file to this repository, it probably requires consent by all contributors. Also, I don't know any license that is specifically for documentation - do you just put MIT/Apache like for code? I'm open for suggestions.

[djfurman]

MIT or BSD-3 would let me contribute without restriction. The current maintainers should be listed as copyright holders and of course be in agreement, but I would be happy to contribute if a license can be defined and added.

The framework itself allows choice between MIT and Apache2 which could mirror here.

Thanks for the quick response!

[msrd0]

So the plan would be to relicense this repository under dual MIT and Apache-2.0 just like the main repository. This requires permission by all contributors. Can you please reply to this issue and explicitly state if you consent to relicense your contribution under both the MIT and the Apache-2.0 license? Thank you.

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[secretfader]

@msrd0 Relicensing under MIT, Apache 2.0 is an acceptable plan to me.

[berkus]

@msrd0 I'm generally fine with re-licensing under SPDX: MIT OR Apache-2.0, however for the documentation sites CC BY-NC-SA might be a better one.

See for example my site's license.

[bradleybeddoes]

I consent to the change in license 😀

[bardiharborow]

I hereby license any of my past or future contributions to this repository under the terms of the MIT license or the Apache 2.0 license.

[smangelsdorf]

I'm sorry, I completely missed this in a sea of notifications back when it happened. It showed up today in an unrelated search I was doing.

I consent to the change in license, for whatever it's worth this much later. 😅

[berkus]

I consent to the change in license, for whatever it's worth this much later. 😅

It's dead, Jim.

[smangelsdorf]

Yeah, fair call. I had two choices:

1. Reply to a super old issue that everyone has forgotten
2. Not reply to a super old issue that might eventually matter

🤷🏻‍♂️ Lesser of two evils.