Hello, I wanted to make a custom implementation of the sunburst example here, but wanted to know if it needed to be released under a particular license. This was kind of already answered here , but since there was no license attached to the zoomable post I wanted to make sure that it would still be …

Greetings, According to this post Copyright and software licenses , the terms of service lead to the conclusion that the sunburst example is “unlicensed” (all rights reserved by the original author). Therefore the activity of copy-pasting the code outside of observable and re-releasing it under MIT …

No laws (to my knowledge) make “copy-pasting the code” illegal. “Fair use” covers a lot of cases, including (but not limited to) research and teaching : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976#Fair_use Furthermore, since the OP is about a “custom implementation”, copyright laws prob…

[image] Fil: No laws (to my knowledge) make “copy-pasting the code” illegal. Not the copy-pasting, but definitely the relicensing part. [image] Fil: you might want to ask the author in person if they would grant you (or the public) an authorization. I agree. And if you want to go abov…

[image] Fil: “copy-pasting the code” illegal Indeed, the act of “copy-pasting the code” itself would not be illegal, but re-publishing the work (or any derived work such as a “custom implementation”) under any licence with a different copyright holder, or using it as the starting point for a…

[image] curran: This is why I cannot, for example, use any code whatsoever from Observable (that’s not explicitly permissively licensed) in any client projects that I work on. Even for permissively licensed code you’ll want to reference the pinned notebook (i.e. notebook URL including the @VE…

Related discussion in StackOverflow https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/7897/what-is-the-license-of-code-found-in-observablehq

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mbostock July 16, 2020, 8:15pm 8

Closing the loop here: we shipped support for licensing notebooks today, and the zoomable sunburst notebook is now released under the permissive ISC license. Enjoy!

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