From 14b59b4338d8d6032fbd094c6eb8d591cf7ef715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karsten Wade Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:58:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Create LICENSE tl;dr -- providing a missing license file, copyright information is best-guess, go ahead and modify the PR with accurate information The `LICENSE` file appears to be missing or was accidentally removed (I didn't dig around to much to see what happened.) Since the `README` declares MIT license and points to the `LICENSE` file in the source root, I figure this MIT file with the copyright dates covering the length of the codebase would be the right thing, yes? Regarding copyright ownership mentioned there --that practice of naming an entity and others ("et al") is one I have seen and used before to simplify the list. This is because the commit history holds the details about who created what. (A variation is "Copyright (C) 2022-2025 Kit Project contributors", and the contributors are by definition those in the commit history.) The reason for picking Alex's name is this project shows the signs of being a personal project and not on behalf of an employer. Where open source is written as works-for-hire, the practice of putting the employer in as the copyright holder is commonly used, and the licensing by that copyright holder provides the individual contributors the assurance of using and contributing to this code base going forward (even if they move on to a different employer, etc.) Signed-off-by: Karsten Wade --- LICENSE | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSE diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7473875 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Copyright 2022-2025 Alex Collins et al + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. From 5d5221fe107e0de2d1fc09c932255500e503444d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karsten Wade Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:35:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Apply suggestions from code review Pulling in the CodeRabbit suggestions (as I couldn't find another way to accept the suggested nitpicks, which were good stuff IMO.) Signed-off-by: Karsten Wade --- LICENSE | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 7473875..a945cb8 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ -Copyright 2022-2025 Alex Collins et al +MIT License -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: +Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Collins et al + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. +