Planet versioning and licenses

Planet versioning and licenses

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Wed Jul 24 04:02:02 2024   by   Mizuki
The current versioning system (month - year) doesn’t really work if you have more than one releases in a month - like just now. (Jul 9 - Jul 22). Users looking at the code or using "planet -R" will only see "July 2024" and have a hard time knowing which version it is.
Maybe it'd be better to change the version string to something like "2024.07.22"?

Also, do you have any plan to adopt maybe a more formal FOSS license for your code? Like BSD or Expat etc…
 
Tue Jul 30 09:56:04 2024   by   Torben
Yes, using exact dates for versioning is a good idea.  I will do so from the next release onwards.

As for licensing, I haven't given it much thought. I lean toward a Creative Commons license, but I'm not sure how well that works for code.
 
Tue Jul 30 10:59:17 2024   by   Mizuki
Unfortunately CC explicitly recommend against using it for software...
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9242/why-does-creative-commons-recommend-not-using-cc-by-licenses-for-software
 

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