License Question

[TiptoC01]

Hi there

Creative Commons says not to use this licence for software, you site the parent project as a reason but that uses GPLv3, you should move to GPLv3 or mixed-licensing if needed (e.g. for logos etc). Reading the VESC Project sites suggests they use a mixed licensing approach

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software

https://vesc-project.com/Ethos

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FWIW I think that relicensing this under a copyleft license like GPL would be unnecessarily restrictive. The software license equivalent of the current CC-BY license is something permissive like the MIT license or the 2-clause BSD license.

Such permissive licenses are typical for open source software libraries (like this one), whereas GPL is typical for open source end-user software (like the VESC configuration tool and the firmware), for good reasons.