Added Turbo License doc #30900
Added Turbo License doc #30900
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Thanks for tackling this. I'm not sure if this should go in licensing as it's not a license, but I understand that's where people would look for the information.
Regardless of where this note lands in the docs, it should link to the PR where the colormap was added since that validates the claim.
| As such, it is licensed under the Matplotlib license, unless otherwise | ||
| explicitly stated. |
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I'm not sure that's true. @matplotlib/steering-council?
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I’m not a legal expert, but that’s my understanding: Contributions to matplotlib without explicit license statement are implicitly licensed under the mpl license. In the case of Turbo, the author has simply relicensed Turbo for matplotlib through contributing.
If we need more formal legal confirmation, we either have to get legal support though Numfocus, or ask the author again.
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Thanks for flagging this-its sounds fair.I'm happy to soften the language to avoid strong legal assertion and instead document how colormap is treated based on its contribution history
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I would remove the language unless you have a lawyer who says it's needed. If the original creator of the PR is the original creator of the colormap, and they didn't assert a separate license, there is nothing to do here. It's just confusing to call this out separately
Co-authored-by: hannah <story645@gmail.com>
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