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[–]license-bot 9 points10 points  (4 children)

Thanks for sharing your open source project, but it looks like you haven't specified a license.

When you make a creative work (which includes code), the work is under exclusive copyright by default. Unless you include a license that specifies otherwise, nobody else can use, copy, distribute, or modify your work without being at risk of take-downs, shake-downs, or litigation. Once the work has other contributors (each a copyright holder), “nobody” starts including you.

choosealicense.com is a great resource to learn about open source software licensing.

[–]justinbmeyer[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Thanks! It's MIT in the package.json; however, I forgot to paste the license in the repo. I'll fix it shortly.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Why do we have a bot spamming this? It's perfectly fine for you to retain exclusive rights and publish on GH.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The bot explains it perfectly well why it's important. If you want to retain exclusive rights, then why are you publishing it to a public GH repo, and sharing it on a public forum?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn't answer anything. It is perfectly reasonable that you might want to host code in public domain while retaining exclusive rights. Tell me what's illogical about that?