Adapting contributing guide - License mismatch

[JustWaveThings]

I believe that TOP's contributing guide (is their License a part of the curriculum?) falls under a different license than is currently shown in the license.md for this group project.

From TOP's curriculum repo license.md:

License
This curriculum is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

It basically means you can do whatever you want with the material as long as it's for non-commercial use but you've got to attribute the original author (Erik Trautman) and share any derivative works under the same license.

https://github.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/blob/main/license.md

In order to create a derivative work from the TOP contributing guide, it sounds like we'd need to adopt that license for our guide. Now, I think we'd be fine having the whole project under that license, but I think another path is to have just the guide under that specific license.

What are the team's thoughts on adopting the same license that TOP uses for their curriculum?

[JustWaveThings]

This repo has a GNU General Public License v3.0 https://github.com/Club-40/TOP-Club-40-Group-Project/blob/e6626ae4735f89e689f0574fb7013f7fd4902baa/LICENSE.

I believe in order to use the TOP contributing guide or a derivative, we'd need to follow their licensing. I could be wrong.

[Philip-Clark]

I'm fine with changing the license. As long as the new one protects our work and keeps it free and available.

[Lofty-Brambles]

Do we need to follow TOP's contributing guide as a derivative? I like GPL-v3's straightforward, strict copyleft policy and I think allowing that for this project would be cool enough.

If you want an example, here's a contributing guide for another GPL-v3 project.
https://github.com/l-zeuch/yagpdb.vim/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

[JustWaveThings]

Yeah I am good with sticking with GPL-v3! I just didn't want to start the project on the wrong side of a license.

I don't know if everyone can see it, but I think you can make an issue from this discussion on the right hand side ---

[JustWaveThings]

@Philip-Clark --- Am I good to get a rough draft going with the example @Lofty-Brambles gave with the same license this repo has --- I'll incorporate these suggestions implemented as best I am able --- https://github.com/orgs/Club-40/discussions/2#discussioncomment-5539040 -- from @fcasibu
and
https://github.com/orgs/Club-40/discussions/2#discussioncomment-5543097 -- from @crespire

Or if this is better handled by someone else, that's fine as well!

[Lofty-Brambles]

@Philip-Clark --- Am I good to get a rough draft going with the example @Lofty-Brambles gave with the same license this repo has --- I'll incorporate these suggestions implemented as best I am able --- https://github.com/orgs/Club-40/discussions/2#discussioncomment-5539040 -- from @fcasibu and https://github.com/orgs/Club-40/discussions/2#discussioncomment-5543097 -- from @crespire

@JustWaveThings if you feel like it, please do so! I can be helping out with a reviews, fo-sure!

[Philip-Clark]

@JustWaveThings Sounds great. I think you are a good person to do this.

[Lofty-Brambles]

Do go through the points here if you need to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html