Inferencium cares about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which +
I care about upstreaming and sharing code, strongly preferring licenses which have high license compatibility in order to permit sharing code with as many other projects - as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are our preferred choice, while avoiding - copyleft licenses and other licenses which place restrictions on how our code may be used, - and prevent us from including important proprietary code, such as firmware, which can patch - security vulnerabilities, privacy issues, and stability issues. All Inferencium code is and + as possible; for this reason, permissive licenses are my preferred choice, while avoiding + copyleft licenses and other 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. All of my code is and will be permissively licensed unless specific circumstances make it impractical or - infeasible to do so. Our goal is to share code which has the least amount of restrictions as - possible, to allow wider propagation of our code and allow more use cases and possibilities, + infeasible to do so. My goal is to share code which has the least amount of restrictions as + possible, to allow wider propagation of my code and allow more use cases and possibilities, as well as ensuring proprietary code, whenever required, is permitted to be included.
ISO 5962:2021
is used for licensing, in the format
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
which adds
an explicit statement clarifying that patent rights are
not granted by the license alone, and must be granted
- separately by the copyright and/or patent holder(s). We
+ separately by the copyright and/or patent holder(s). I
prefer this license over the BSD 3-Clause "New" or
"Revised" License due to this explicit statement which
removes any possibility of debate and misunderstanding
@@ -147,10 +147,10 @@
original creator of the licensed content.
Due to the restrictive and invasive nature of this
license, it is avoided unless such restrictions would be
- beneficial to Inferencium code; whenever this is the
+ beneficial to my code; whenever this is the
case, the GNU General Public License v2.0 will be used,
rather than the more restrictive
- GNU General Public License v3.0,
+ GNU General Public License v3.0,
and relicensing
derivatives under the GNU General Public License v3.0
will be disallowed.