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<!DOCTYPE html> <!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Inferencium - Website - About --> <!-- Inferencium - Website - About -->
<!-- Version: 8.1.0-alpha.3 --> <!-- Version: 8.1.0-alpha.4 -->
<!-- Copyright 2022 Jake Winters --> <!-- Copyright 2022 Jake Winters -->
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause -->
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</section> </section>
<section id="licensing"> <section id="licensing">
<h2><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></h2> <h2><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></h2>
<p>I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which <p>I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly
have high license compatibility in order to permit sharing code with as many preferring licenses which have high license compatibility in
other projects as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my order to permit sharing code with as many other projects as
preferred choice, while avoiding copyleft licenses and other licenses which possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my
place restrictions on how my code may be used, and prevent me from including preferred choice, while avoiding copyleft licenses and other
important proprietary code, such as firmware, which can patch security licenses which place restrictions on how my code may be
used, and prevent me from including important proprietary
code, such as firmware, which can patch security
vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and stability issues.</p> vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and stability issues.</p>
<p>All of my code is and will be permissively licensed unless specific <p>All of my code is and will be permissively licensed
circumstances make it impractical or infeasible to do so. My goal is to share unless specific circumstances make it impractical or
code which has the least amount of restrictions as possible, to allow wider infeasible to do so. My goal is to share code which has the
propagation of my code and allow more use cases and possibilities, as well as least amount of restrictions as possible, to allow wider
ensuring proprietary code, whenever required, is permitted to be included and/or propagation of my code and allow more use cases and
linked to.</p> possibilities, as well as ensuring proprietary code,
whenever required, is permitted to be included and/or linked
to.</p>
<p><a href="https://iso.org/standard/81870.html">ISO 5962:2021</a> <p><a href="https://iso.org/standard/81870.html">ISO 5962:2021</a>
is used for licensing, in the format is used for licensing, in the format
<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: &lt;license&gt;</code>; see the <code>SPDX-License-Identifier: &lt;license&gt;</code>; see
the
<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX License List</a> <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX License List</a>
for the full list of available licenses under this standard.</p> for the full list of available licenses under this
<p>My preferred licenses and rationale for using them are below; any licenses standard.</p>
not listed are chosen on a case-by-case basis.</p> <p>My preferred licenses and rationale for using them are
<h3 id="licensing-code"><a href="#licensing-code">Code</a></h3> below; any licenses not listed are chosen on a case-by-case
<h4 id="licensing-bsd-3-clause"><a href="#licensing-bsd-3-clause">BSD 3-Clause License</a></h4> basis.</p>
<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause</code> <section id="licensing-code">
<p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p> <h3><a href="#licensing-code">Code</a></h3>
<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html">BSD 3-Clause License</a> <section id="licensing-code-bsd3clause">
is a highly permissive license which allows content <h4><a href="#licensing-code-bsd3clause">BSD 3-Clause License</a></h4>
licensed under it to be used in any way, whether in <code>SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause</code>
source or binary form, and allows sublicensing under a <p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p>
different license, with the only restrictions being the <p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html">BSD 3-Clause License</a>
original copyright notice must be kept in order to is a highly permissive license which
attribute the original creator of the licensed content, allows content licensed under it to be
and the name of the project and/or its contributors may used in any way, whether in source or
not be used to endorse or promote products derived from binary form, and allows sublicensing
the original project.</p> under a different license, with the only
<h4 id="licensing-gpl-2.0"><a href="#licensing-gpl-2.0">GNU General Public License v2.0</a></h4> restrictions being the original
<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only</code> copyright notice must be kept in order
<p><b>Type: Copyleft</b></p> to attribute the original creator of the
<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v2.0</a> licensed content, and the name of the
is a strong copyleft license which restricts use of project and/or its contributors may not
content licensed under it by requiring all source code be used to endorse or promote products
of the content to be publicly available, making derived from the original project.</p>
binary-only form and inclusion of proprietary code </section>
impossible, requiring all derivatives to be licensed <section id="licensing-code-gpl2.0only">
under the same license (allowing sublicensing under only <h4><a href="#licensing-code-gpl2.0only">GNU General Public License v2.0</a></h4>
newer GPL licenses if <code>GPL-2.0-or-later</code> is <code>SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only</code>
specified in the SPDX license identifier), and requiring <p><b>Type: Copyleft</b></p>
the original copyright notice to be kept in order to <p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v2.0</a>
attribute the original creator of the licensed is a strong copyleft license which
content.</p> restricts use of content licensed under
<p>Due to the restrictive and invasive nature of this it by requiring all source code of the
license, it is avoided unless such restrictions would be content to be publicly available, making
beneficial to my code; whenever this is the case, the binary-only form and inclusion of
GNU General Public License v2.0 will be used, rather proprietary code impossible, requiring
than the more restrictive all derivatives to be licensed under the
<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v3.0</a>, same license (allowing sublicensing
and relicensing derivatives under the GNU General Public under only newer GPL licenses if
License v3.0 will be disallowed.</p> <code>GPL-2.0-or-later</code> is
<h3 id="licensing-noncode"><a href="#licensing-noncode">Non-code</a></h3> specified in the SPDX license
<h4 id="licensing-cc-by-4.0"><a href="#licensing-cc-by-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a></h4> identifier), and requiring the original
<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0</code> copyright notice to be kept in order to
<p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p> attribute the original creator of the
<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a> licensed content.</p>
is a highly permissive license which allows content <p>Due to the restrictive and invasive
licensed under it to be used in any way, in any medium, nature of this license, it is avoided
with the only restriction being the original copyright unless such restrictions would be
notice must be kept in order to attribute the original beneficial to my code; whenever this is
creator of the licensed content.</p> the case, the GNU General Public License
<h3 id="licensing-open_source_vs_free_software"><a href="#licensing-open_source_vs_free_software">Do I Distinguish Between Open-source and Free Software?</a></h3> v2.0 will be used, rather than the more
<p>No. If code is not released under an open-source license and restrictive
places restrictions on how the code may be used, it is either <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-only.html">GNU General Public License v3.0</a>,
source-available (if viewing the code is permitted) or and relicensing derivatives under the
proprietary. "Free software" only causes confusion and exists to GNU General Public License v3.0 will be
push an ideology by a specific group of people. If software disallowed.</p>
isn't "free", it's not open-source, either.</p> </section>
</section>
<section id="licensing-noncode">
<h3><a href="#licensing-noncode">Non-code</a></h3>
<section id="licensing-noncode-ccby4.0">
<h4><a href="#licensing-noncode-ccby4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a></h4>
<code>SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0</code>
<p><b>Type: Permissive</b></p>
<p><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a>
is a highly permissive license which
allows content licensed under it to be
used in any way, in any medium, with the
only restriction being the original
copyright notice must be kept in order
to attribute the original creator of the
licensed content.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="licensing-open_source_vs_free_software">
<h3><a href="#licensing-open_source_vs_free_software">Do I Distinguish Between Open Source and Free Software?</a></h3>
<p>No. If code is not released under an open-source
license and places restrictions on how the code may be
used, it is either source-available (if viewing the code
is permitted) or proprietary. "Free software" only
causes confusion and exists to push an ideology by a
specific group of people. If software isn't "free", it's
not open-source, either.</p>
</section>
</section> </section>
<section id="versioning"> <section id="versioning">
<h2><a href="#versioning">Versioning</a></h2> <h2><a href="#versioning">Versioning</a></h2>