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story645 opened this issue Nov 6, 2023 · 3 comments
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[Doc]: Two license pages in docs #27277

story645 opened this issue Nov 6, 2023 · 3 comments
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story645 commented Nov 6, 2023 •
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We've got license files in user/project and in contribute and it's very unclear if this is an artifact of doc reshuffling or b/c they mean different things:

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Far as I can tell, the page in contribute looks more like an explainer for the license than a license page. If that's the case they should be merged into the page under project, otherwise each page should have clearer framing explaining what it's about.

ETA: I think the contribute/licensees one is supposed to be "Which dependencies am I allowed to add to Matplotlib?"
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One is an editorial explanation of why we have the license we do, the other is actually the License.

I do not think we should merge editorial content with the actual license as opinions may vary about choices, but the actual license is a statement of history/fact.

We should consider extending the second page to include the text of all the other files in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/main/LICENSE

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story645 commented Nov 6, 2023 •
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Yeah, I figured that out after I posted this issue and am aiming at making it more explicit what the dev one is on about in #27265 b/c it's also stating policy about what licenses are allowed for (new) dependencies.

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We should consider extending the second page to include the text of all the other files in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/main/LICENSE

Figured it'd be a good place to use dropdowns, default is that the MPL agreement is open: #27280

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