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How do I use the correct licensing? (lemmy.basedcount.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/bevy

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I recently made a library for bevy, and want it to be available under the same dual license as bevy. What i've done is created both licence files and copy-pasted the contents, as well as copy the license sections from another bevy project. Is this all I need to do? I'm not a lawyer and am very new to all of this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also not a lawyer, but including both license files and adding to your README that your project is dual-licensed under both licenses at the user's choice should be sufficient. GitHub should also detect both licenses and show them in the project's side bar.

If you copy-pasted the licenses, just make sure to adapt the MIT license, as it includes the year and name of the copyright holder. You should adapt these to your project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The MIT license I copied (https://github.com/aevyrie/bevy_eventlistener/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT) didn't have that, where should I add/modify it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can take a look at the MIT license website which has the placeholders.

Fun fact: On GitHub, if you add a file in the web UI and include "LICENSE" in the file name, it gives you a button to choose a license template. Then you can see common license options and a summary of what they do. It also allows you to fill in details like the year and copyright holder.