MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Plugin Devs: Should we include a License or COPYING file?

KevinH · 08-15-2017, 12:37 PM

Hi Doitsu,

I do not really want to pick a default license nor make it part of the plugin.xml. A license is completely determined by the author and the license of any other libraries and tools he/she uses.

I am simply advocating that we ask all plugin developers to include their own license information either in a License file inside their plugin or on their main thread plugin page someplace so that future plugins are not orphaned if the chosen license allows it to be copied/redistributed.

I guess we could modify the Plugin index to add a license field to the summary information available for each plugin to make it easier for users to find all of the license information in one place.

08-15-2017, 12:37 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,647 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi Doitsu, I do not really want to pick a default license nor make it part of the plugin.xml. A license is completely determined by the author and the license of any other libraries and tools he/she uses. I am simply advocating that we ask all plugin developers to include their own license information either in a License file inside their plugin or on their main thread plugin page someplace so that future plugins are not orphaned if the chosen license allows it to be copied/redistributed. I guess we could modify the Plugin index to add a license field to the summary information available for each plugin to make it easier for users to find all of the license information in one place.