Proposed copyright and license text #198
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This project lacks a copyright and license statement.
Technically, this is needed for anyone to legally use WCT. Specifically, DUNE now has guidelines[1] and requirements for what software may be used by the collaboration and is what motivates making this PR now to fix this long-standing omission.
This PR proposes assigning BNL as the copyright holder. I think this is the only available choice. Added is the phrase "for the benefit of the Wire-Cell Team" which follows guidance from HSF[2].
This PR proposes licensing WCT according to the GNU LGPL. I believe this license is consistent with software WCT uses as well as WCT's main user (larsoft) while assuring the use and development of WCT by other people remains open. Note, ROOT also uses LGPL.
The PR itself adds a
LICENSEfile and one example file "header" in thewscriptfile. We can add the header to more files once this PR is merged, marking general agreement by the team.[1] https://docs.dunescience.org/cgi-bin/sso/ShowDocument?docid=27141
[2] https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/notes/HSF-TN-2016-01.pdf