Add a BSD 3-Clause license - #24
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The repository had no license, so the default of all rights reserved applied: nobody had permission to use, modify, or redistribute it, even though it is published on PyPI. Use the BSD 3-Clause license, matching `numpy` and `astropy`, which this package sits on top of. It also satisfies NASA SPD-41a, which asks that software developed with Science Mission Directorate funding be released under a permissive license. Declare it in the package metadata using the PEP 639 fields, so that the built distributions carry `License-Expression: BSD-3-Clause` and ship the `LICENSE` file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This repository has no license, which means the default of all rights reserved
applies: nobody has permission to use, modify, or redistribute it, even though
it is published on PyPI (0.3.0 is the current release) and used by the ESIS
level-4 inversion work. This is the same change merged as
sun-data/regridding#54, sun-data/named-arrays#203, sun-data/colorsynth#11,
sun-data/ndfilters#28, and sun-data/optika#199.
This adds the BSD 3-Clause license, matching
numpyandastropy. It alsosatisfies NASA SPD-41a, which asks that software developed with Science Mission
Directorate funding be released under a permissive license, and its third clause
forbids using the copyright holders' names to endorse derived products.
Changes
LICENSE, the standard BSD 3-Clause text, with the copyright lineCopyright (c) 2023-2026, Roy T. Smart, Jacob D. Parker, and Charles C. Kankelborg,matching
optika. Roy and Jacob are the committers; Charles is included atRoy's direction. 2023 is when the repository was created.
pyproject.tomldeclareslicense = "BSD-3-Clause"andlicense-files = ["LICENSE"], the PEP 639 form.Verified by building a wheel from this branch: the metadata is
Metadata-Version: 2.4withLicense-Expression: BSD-3-ClauseandLicense-File: LICENSE, and the license is packaged atdist-info/licenses/LICENSE, so PyPI will display it on the next release.There is no
License ::classifier to conflict with the expression, andruff check .passes (this repository already pins its lint rules, so it isnot exposed to the problem fixed in sun-data/ndfilters#29).
Worth knowing before merging
The copyright line names the people rather than Montana State University. MSU's
faculty handbook gives authors ownership of copyrightable works other than
commissioned courseware, which is the basis for that, but the university has
not been asked, and if it ever asserts ownership the line is an ordinary commit
to correct. Releasing permissively is the part that does not undo: copies
distributed under these terms stay licensed under them.
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