Permissive Default License

[Slakah]

Looking at line

sbt-cake/build.sbt

Line 31 in e686d5d

Seq("Apache-2.0" -> url("http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"))

. This feels a little dangerous, I doubt most of our internal projects are actually Apache licensed projects, and it feels a little too easy to forget to remove this license.

I would have thought that we would probably default to an all rights reserved license, allowing any project maintainer to easily amend to a more permissive license. (IANAL), but I would imagine that once a piece of source code is issued with a permissive license, then that license would be applied forever (it's not possible to remove the permissions granted by that license).

I'm all for open software, but it should be a conscious choice by the owner/maintainer of the software in question.

[carlpulley]

I'm not sure I agree with this?

These build.sbt settings apply (or rather should!) to sbt-cake only - hence why it has a permissive license. For BAMTech Media uses of sbt-cake, we fully expect that teams will define there own licenses (probably not relevant now for BAMTech Media projects?).

[Slakah]

I'm not sure I agree with this?

These build.sbt settings apply (or rather should!) to sbt-cake only - hence why it has a permissive license. For BAMTech Media uses of sbt-cake, we fully expect that teams will define there own licenses (probably not relevant now for BAMTech Media projects?).

Raised this against the wrong repo, meant to raise this against https://github.com/cakesolutions/play-scala-template.g8 .

Apologies!

Edit: the proper issue cakesolutions/play-scala-template.g8#55