Code of conduct etc

[rotonde]

Code of conduct etc

[cblgh]

they call me speedy gonzales you know, my bad!

[neauoire]

This is outside my area of expertise a little bit, but I usually go with CC. Wasn't there a lot of drama with MIT involving React? I failed to understand what that was about but Rotonde should pretty much be as close as possible to GNU, like do what thou will. I'm open to anything really, as long as it lets people feel confident that nobody will go after them, that we always make sure that 100% of the code is from Rotonde contributors and not external libraries.

[cblgh]

added in #50

[lsjroberts]

There's more than just the code of conduct here :)

[webdesserts]

@neauoire the drama with react was that they used a custom license with a patent clause in it. They eventually settled on MIT after WordPress and others said they would stop using React due to the patent clause. So it wasn't really an issue with MIT, MIT was the solution to the issue. That said I know nothing about licenses 🙃

[neauoire]

Thanks for the clarification :)
Let's go with MIT!

[lsjroberts]

MIT is good. Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for software as that is not what they were intended for (last I checked).

The React issue is interesting as now there is technically less protection for anyone using React. But it's all a bit opaque and untested.

[frozenpandaman]

Agreed, MIT is nice and permissive. I also like GPL, very similar but disallows projects leveraging/using the code in commercial or proprietary ways, etc. So it sort of forces the open-ness on all derivative works. :) Depends on your philosophy/aim though, of course.

We'll want to add the code of conduct & license to the new client and user repos as well at some point.