[OH-Dev] New tools directory

[Daniel Mizyrycki]

Thank you for your clarification, Asheesh. This is great news, and
will have it in mind if we'd like to include something more significant.

Daniel

On 06/20/2012 05:05 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Excerpts from Daniel Mizyrycki's message of Wed Jun 20 20:04:04 -0400 2012:
>> The keywords here is that the contribution is licenced to StackOverflow.
>> In general, I wonder if the fact that the work was released as CC BY-SA
>> gives us any right at all. In particular, I will create a new tool using
>> python for this task. I just wanted to have something to start with, but
>> legal liability truly takes all the passion of opensource.
> The fact that it's licensed by-sa to StackExchange does mean that
> we are permitted to use it under the (fairly permissive) terms of
> the Creative Commons by-sa 2.5 license, actually!
>
> So I would say, if you don't want to rewrite it, make a note at the
> top with that quote from their contract page, and we'll just agree
> that the one file in our repository is licensed CC by-sa 2.5.
>
> A slightly weird license for software, but livable, in my opinion.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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