How does / should copyright work here? Prose could default to the author, and have options for Creative Commons. But how does that mix with imported code with various licenses, and cells from other Observable docs?

@Fil I’m curious, what is it about CodePen’s policy that makes you want to avoid it? Would CodePen be more appealing if they allowed users to choose any license for their public works?

This doesn’t seem to solve any problem except CodePen’s. As an author: choosing what I do with my “creations” is one of the few freedoms I have. CodePen imposing its views is restricting that freedom. I guess it’s enough to say “bleh”. As a consumer of code: As the license has been set by the plat…

Thank you so much @Fil for sharing your thoughts on this! Extremely insightful.

The act of forking and changing license turns out to be quite the rabbit hole. I came across this today and it blew my mind, thought it might be of interest here: [image] From Janelia Farm FlyEM Project: Open Source Licenses and their Compatibility . Would be neat to visualize that graph in Obse…

[image] curran: I came across this today and it blew my mind, thought it might be of interest here The Wikipedia article has even more charts (CC licenses among them). I agree that a choose-a-license style wizard with compatibility filtering could be an interesting project. I’m also curious t…

Good stuff! Updated my link to the page.

An interesting case study: This Observable notebook: d3.interpolateZoom by @Fil was ported to this CodeSandbox: react-d3-animation-with-hooks by @clhenrick . The original is unlicensed . The port is MIT licensed .

In this case the original should have been licensed with “cc-by-sa-4.0”, as are the other docs I wrote for d3 on observable. Fixing it now. Thanks!

Good catch Curran, I didn’t notice the license file in codesandbox, nor that it defaults to MIT. I can attempt to change it to unlicensed if this is problematic.

[image] clhenrick: I can attempt to change it to unlicensed if this is problematic. Not sure that’s possible. You’ll either violate the original license or codesandbox.io’s terms . Your best bet might be to check if MIT is compatible with the CC license. Edit: Actually, you’ll violate the ter…

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Closing the loop here: we shipped support for licensing notebooks today. Feedback welcome.

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