From 54254c3f69e36935dc2cfdb12ee9579c731632eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Balter Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:10:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add descriptions to bsd-3 and agpl --- _licenses/agpl-3.0.txt | 2 ++ _licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt b/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt index 116e27c..bbb30ef 100644 --- a/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt +++ b/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ permalink: /licenses/agpl-3.0/ source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt redirect_from: /licenses/agpl/ +description: "GPL is the most widely used free software license and has a strong copyleft requirement. When distributing derived works, the source code of the work must be made available under the same license. The AGPL is distinguished from GPLv2 and GPLv3 in that hosted services using the code are considered distribution and trigger the copyleft requirements." + note: The Free Software Foundation recommends taking the additional step of adding a boilerplate notice to the top of each file. The boilerplate can be found at the end of the license. how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. diff --git a/_licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt b/_licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt index 7e8612a..80d67e7 100644 --- a/_licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt +++ b/_licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tab-slug: bsd-3 hide-from-license-list: true permalink: /licenses/bsd-3-clause/ +description: A permissive license that comes in two variants, the BSD 2-Clause and BSD 3-Clause. Both have very minute differences to the MIT license. The three clause variant prohibits others from using the name of the project or its contributors to promote derivative works without written consent. + how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [year] with the current year and [fullname] with the name (or names) of the copyright holders. Replace {organization} with the organization, if any, that sponsors this work. source: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause From 79368c31978c4380f4c661d19e75ccf4b22507d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Balter Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:30:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] its all about familiy --- _licenses/agpl-3.0.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt b/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt index bbb30ef..ec2bc6a 100644 --- a/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt +++ b/_licenses/agpl-3.0.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ permalink: /licenses/agpl-3.0/ source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt redirect_from: /licenses/agpl/ -description: "GPL is the most widely used free software license and has a strong copyleft requirement. When distributing derived works, the source code of the work must be made available under the same license. The AGPL is distinguished from GPLv2 and GPLv3 in that hosted services using the code are considered distribution and trigger the copyleft requirements." +description: "The GPL family of licenses is the most widely used free software license and has a strong copyleft requirement. When distributing derived works, the source code of the work must be made available under the same license. The AGPL family of licenses is distinguished from GPLv2 and GPLv3 in that hosted services using the code are considered distribution and trigger the copyleft requirements." note: The Free Software Foundation recommends taking the additional step of adding a boilerplate notice to the top of each file. The boilerplate can be found at the end of the license.