Please add licensing terms

[loren-osborn]

Nobody can legally use this project for anything practical until you clarify what terms you are licensing it under.

Based on what you wrote about this project, you originally intended to have it included in the C++ STL. If you decided to follow through with that, it would have needed to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the STL, so that any C++ developer could include it in their project without paying any licensing fees, etc. Your stated reasons for abandoning STL inclusion did not include any references to licensing, so I expect you would like people using this project. Currently, I see no clear way to contact either you or your academic institution where you did this work, so there is no clear way to request a license to use this (free, paid or otherwise).

GitHub provides very easy means to add licensing terms to projects it hosts. (Based on my experience, an MIT style license provides the most liberal reuse terms among Open Source licenses, if you wish to go that route.)

This project seems very innovative and well thought out, but I don’t expect it will see much adoption until you clarify its terms of use.