What is the license for the project?

[artyom-poptsov]

Hello,

what is the license for the specifications? I noticed that there's no COPYING or LICENSE file in the repository, not even a mention of the license in README.md.

Maybe you could explicitly use some kind of Creative Commons license, or maybe GNU FDL if it is possible?

Thanks!

-avp

[MarcoPolo]

I believe this should be MIT Licensed like https://github.com/libp2p/libp2p and https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p. I'll make a PR

[vyzo]

It turns out this is not so simple to do.
People (as @marten-seemann pointed out) have been making contribution in license-free manner for close to a decade.

We need to discuss this with the community at large (this issue is just as a good a place an any), agree to a license and get everyone to sign off.

Thank you for bringing this up, turns out nobody has thought about the specs license :(

[Stebalien]

Well, the license is

specs/archive/README.md

Line 104 in 79ae167

[CC-BY-SA 3.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/) © Protocol Labs Inc.

. But that file got archived in 2019...

[artyom-poptsov]

Hello!

Just to be clear: I want to package this specification for GNU Guix as some of the other specifications were already packaged but Guix policy does not allow to package stuff with proprietary or missing licenses for the official repository.

Maybe it is not so important to package it right now as this repository is just a documentation and not involved in the build/check process of any of libp2p projects that already packaged for Guix. Yet libp2p projects with FOSS licenses refer to this documentation and it is good to have clear licensing status for specs as well.

-avp